ATTENTION Gmail users, You have been automatically OPTED IN to allow Gmail to access all your private messages & attachments to train AI models. EDIT maybenot? (xcancel.com)

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i am not alt texting this, copied and pasted multiple tweets today

EDIT according to the message relay from doubledealer this message is incorrect

from malwarebytes We’ve updated this article after realising we contributed to a perfect storm of misunderstanding around a recent change in the wording and placement of Gmail’s smart features. The settings themselves aren’t new, but the way Google recently rewrote and surfaced them led a lot of people (including us) to believe Gmail content might be used to train Google’s AI models, and that users were being opted in automatically. After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case.

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[-] fox@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago

The infuriating thing is that they shove that shit into pre-existing features so opting out will break your email setup

[-] JDvecna@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

Yep, back in November, I opted out. This made Gmail put 55k advertising/spam emails in my primary/only inbox (it stops categorizing). I spent a week manually unsubscribing from every business I've ever bought an item from in my life. But my inbox is at 0 unread and I don't get much spam anymore. It sucked, but I guess I'm glad I did it.

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