A Google spokesperson has said that claims about Google Gemini automatically accessing users’ Gmail data to train the AI model are false, following rumors circulating on social media.
Google has hit back at claims circulating on social media, which alleged that the tech giant is training its Google Gemini AI on users’ emails without their permission.
In an official statement shared with The Verge, Google spokesperson Jenny Thomson called reports « misleading », saying that the company has “not changed anyone’s settings, Gmail Smart Features have existed for many years, and we do not use your Gmail content for training our Gemini AI model.”
Some users on X weren’t pleased by the idea of their private email communications being fed into Gemini, with one user calling it « the largest consent manufacturing operation in history. » Some of these claims were even reprinted in a blog from antivirus software firm Malwarebytes.
