Gmail users were automatically consented to this controversial setting. Here’s how to turn it off.

Another day, another “feature” activated in a load-bearing app that you might want to disable.

For Gmail users, there’s an automatic opt-in that may allow Google to use your email data (think your personal and work messages, your attachments) to train its AI models, cybersecurity experts warn. If you do not want this information shared, you will need to adjust your settings.

“IMPORTANT news for anyone using Gmail. You’ve been automatically enabled to allow Gmail to access all of your private messages and attachments to train AI models,” engineer Dave Jones shared on X earlier this week. “You must manually disable Smart Features in TWO places in the Settings menu.”

In the race for companies to achieve ROI with AI, we are already seeing that language learning models do not have new, human-generated data to train on. And as HuffPost has previously reported, tools like AI assistants…