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Comment by OfSanguineFire | Hacker News Reader

> You can stop using those services.

Even if you stop using Gmail, chances are that the other party is using Gmail. (Today even e-mail addresses with non-Gmail domains are often using Gmail behind their custom domain.) So, your emails go to train AI for Google even if you deliberately stopped using their service.

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You're not wrong, but it certainly doesn't hurt to to use a different email service. I use Protonmail as my main email account, and I'm sure the HN crowd knows that there many other good email services available these days. If you think the general population should change their behavior, then it has to start somewhere, y'know?

When you send mail to someone else, they can do whatever they want with it, including giving it to google.

Then you really haven't done anything about them using your data for training, have you?

The article says "Your Gmail and Instagram are training AI.", emphasis on the "your". Of course I can't do anything about someone else distributing data I gave them.

This actually differs from one jurisdiction to another, that is, some jurisdictions do not permit publication of correspondence without the consent of the sender. Use of your email for AI training therefore may therefore be open to legal challenge. You know how legal challenges start? By someone feeling that there is a problem.

In any event, as the other poster mentioned, your original post claimed “You can…” and now you are moving to “You can’t” out of an apparent relish for being contrarian. This is not good-faith discussion on your part.

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