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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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[-] doubledealer@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This was Fake News that was corrected: https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/11/gmail-is-reading-your-emails-and-attachments-to-train-its-ai-unless-you-turn-it-off

Google is a terrible company and has countless crimes to pay for, don't need to manufacture anything else or scare people needlessly.

If you had a negative reaction to the idea though, you should probably still switch email providers. As others are saying, it's just a matter of time before Google does get more aggressive pushing AI, abusing your data, and drowning you in more shit.

Updating accounts and migrating email from accounts that are over 20 years old sucked ass, but it feels great to be out of Google, save for YouTube.

Alt txt for OP: A series of debunked tweets, informed by a corrected MalwareBytes article, highlighting Google gmail features purported to pertain to AI in Nov 2025 and calls to action to disable identified settings.

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