Google has refuted claims of using Gmail content for AI model training, calling reports misleading. The company clarified that while smart features like predictive text personalize user experience, ...

What’s happened? After the X user @eevblog shared alleged screenshots of Google automatically opting everyone in to let Gmail access their messages and attachments, Gmail issued a public statement ...

According to Google, when enabled, Gmail’s Smart Features use the content of your emails to personalise your experience, not to feed AI training data. Google has strongly refuted viral claims that it ...

Viral posts alleged Gmail was using user emails to train AI, sparking widespread concern. A YouTube influencer's warning about "Smart Features" and a Malwarebytes report fueled the debate. Google has ...

Google says the claims about training Gemini AI with users' emails from Gmail are false. Credit: Mustafa Hatipoglu/Anadolu via Getty Images You may have seen the now-viral warnings that Google is ...

Viral posts claim you need to opt out of Gmail’s ‘smart features’ to avoid having your emails used to train AI, but Google says it doesn’t use the content of your emails for AI training. Viral posts ...

While Google disagrees, the company may have decided again that your data is its toy. Here's how to try to stop Gmail from training its AI on your email. There's no shortage of big tech companies that ...

Gmail users have been warned they should opt out of a new feature on the platform if they do not want their personal data to be used "to train AI models." In a viral post on social media platform X ...

In November 2025, a rumor circulated that Google's latest update had automatically opted in all users to allow its generative artificial intelligence (AI) program to train on private communications ...

Another day, another “feature” turned on in a load-bearing app that you might want to turn off. For Gmail users, there is an automatic opt-in that may allow Google to use your emailed data (think: ...

You may have seen warnings that Google is telling all of its users to change their Gmail passwords due to a breach. That’s only partly true. Google is telling users ...

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