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GMail's already been using your data for classification, data mining, etc. other AI purposes. I would be legitimately surprised if they're NOT using processed G
by dayvid 3y ago
GMail's already been using your data for classification, data mining, etc. other AI purposes. I would be legitimately surprised if they're NOT using processed GMail data (potentially removing sensitive data, etc.) in training their LLMs or other AI projects.
- crazygringo 3y agoYup. To be clear, that's with the free version though. If you pay, corporate versions of Google Workspace won't train on your data. That's very much by design, since companies don't want anything internal ever being exposed. But with the free version, that's part of what you're "paying" for it to remain free.
- tikkun 3y agoCould you share a source? I'll immediately switch off my gmail onto one of my google workspace domains, if so.
- crazygringo 3y agohttps://workspace.google.com/blog/identity-and-security/protecting-your-data-era-generative-ai https://workspace.google.com/blog/identity-and-security/prot... https://9to5google.com/2023/07/03/google-privacy-policy-ai-training-data/ https://9to5google.com/2023/07/03/google-privacy-policy-ai-t... Although judging from that, it sounds like Google may have changed policy so that even private data in the free versions is no longer used for AI training. They stopped targeting ads in free Gmail based on your e-mail contents years ago because of the bad press. So maybe they've stopped training AI on free Gmail/Docs data out of similar precaution, now that LLM's are everywhere in the news.
- lern_too_spel 3y agoThey'd certainly use it to train their spam classifiers, but using that data in a generative model shared with other users would risk information leaks, so they wouldn't do that.