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Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
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this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2025
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This means they already did use it for training if it's opt-out, and it's quite the job to get it out. This is why opt-out training should be illegal, and all previously opt-out trained models must be destroyed.