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Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
(www.malwarebytes.com)
this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2025
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Plot twist: they can, and will, do it even if you opt out. The only thing that change is that you won't get anything out of it. Not that it would have been a significant return to begin with.
Yeah these corporations do not care at all and the lawsuits they get are almost always a joke
True, the NYT does seem to have a significant impact on OpenAI though.
NYT is basically a corporation with their billionaire owners. They’ve allowed some pretty shitty people to write opinion articles. Although, they still have some pretty great journalism overall.
I know, but at least they are making a case which most news outlets probably would but don't have the means for a long legal fight. They might get some precedent out of this from which the whole news industry will benefit.
I don't think AI training should ever be fair use. These companies are making billions of other people's work and giving nothing back.
Yeah I agree with you on the AI issue. It’s funny because they all try to pander like it’s supposed to benefit us but on Wall Street and to investors, their tone is all about how it disrupt regular people in the name of profit. So ridiculous lol