Google's AI is eating your email by default. Here's how to shut its mouth

Google's "don't be evil" ethos is so 2015. These days, the Chocolate Factory is all about integrating users with bots, whether they like it or not. Now, it's rolling out Workspace "smart features" that process personal content with AI, and many users are finding the settings enabled by default.

Engineering YouTuber Dave Jones noticed this week that he had been opted into a set of new Workspace smart features without ever being asked. According to Google's help page for the features, the point of the on-by-default settings is to add its Gemini AI across Workspace in order to suck in all your Gmail, Calendar, Chat, Drive, and Meet data so that it can all be cross-referenced. 

As Google notes further down on the help page - where it says the setting isn't on by default in the EU, Switzerland, UK or Japan due to those regions ...