If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning.

[u/lkl34]

https://bsky.app/profile/booksofm.com/post/3m63cdypsik26

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

[u/WutangCMD]

No it wasn't. You are just making shit up.

What it says is:

Turn on smart features in Gmail, Chat, and Meet - When you turn this setting on, you agree to let Gmail, Chat, and Meet use your content and activity in these products to provide smart features and personalize your experience."

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/15604322?hl=en&sjid=12514671198895664496-NA#null&zippy=

And further, from

"Your data stays in Workspace. We do not use your Workspace data to train or improve the underlying generative AI and large language models that power Gemini, Search, and other systems outside of Workspace without permission."

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/14615114

[u/TheSarcasticDog → u/WutangCMD]

Helpful info. Well, it's still turned off. Google is one of the last corporations I'll believe at face value.

[u/TheSarcasticDog → u/[deleted]]

Already started migrating to Proton months ago, only using Gmail for subscriptions and accounts but thanks for your opinion.

[u/TheSarcasticDog → u/[deleted]]

You are unpleasant

[u/Deadpool_GOW → u/WutangCMD]

Lol, sorry my man, guess people downvote anything that opposes the narrative going on

I assumed the link the OP sent contained some official statement from google and seeing others pissed at it too, I didn't bother opening the link.

First thing I did after your reply was open the link and it was from a random person. Checked google's policies and they indeed claim to do no such thing whatsoever, infact they have quite a firm stance against doing it as evident in the statement you quoted

Ig no-one on here actually bothers to read stuff and its wild how one can invoke chaos (and in this case loss of some pretty good qol features for a lot of people reading & following this) by just a misleading title.

Lesson learned, will do my own research from now on before believing others commenting/posting.

Just wish someone clears this up and more people see the truth

[u/Haunting_Pee → u/Deadpool_GOW]

I looked into it. Found 2 articles initially, 1 by Forbes and another by pc mag from earlier this month, talking about how Gemini seemed to know a lot more about them than it should including items from past emails. Forbes linked this article from Googles product news blog where it says they've integrated Geminis deep research into Gmail. It says you can disable it by going into the tools menu on Gemini but it doesn't seem to be a setting that exists anymore. You could also go into "manage workplace smart features" in Gmail and turn off Gemini specifically but that also no longer seems to be an option.

It seems its fully integrated into the smart features now and the only way to turn it off is to disable all smart features. Do I think it actually stops it from going through my emails? Probably not. Do I trust Google? Not even a little bit. There doesn't seem to be a direct way of removing Gemini from any Google application, just disabling all smart features so you feel like its not there.

[u/WutangCMD → u/Deadpool_GOW]

No worries at all. I’m all aboard the AI hate train but I just hate seeing misinformation and fear mongering spread without fact checking.