{"id":31351,"date":"2026-01-05T07:56:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T12:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=31351"},"modified":"2026-01-05T07:56:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T12:56:40","slug":"keeping-the-ai-robots-out-of-your-inbox-a-guide-to-gmail-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/keeping-the-ai-robots-out-of-your-inbox-a-guide-to-gmail-privacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping the AI Robots Out of Your Inbox: A Guide to Gmail Privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Keeping the AI Robots Out of Your Inbox: A Guide to Gmail Privacy<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">This tip is for everyone using a free Gmail account<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">AI is everywhere, and it&#8217;s also in your Gmail account. If the idea of AI &#8220;learning&#8221; from your private emails\u2014even if it&#8217;s just to help you write a better email reply\u2014feels a little bit like someone secretly reading your diary, we&#8217;re going to show you how to prevent those prying AI robot eyes from reading your email.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">That&#8217;s right. You have a choice. You don&#8217;t have to allow Google&#8217;s AI robots to read and learn from your email. You can opt out. It takes about two minutes, and it won&#8217;t break your email. Here is how to do it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Open Gmail on your computer and sign in (if you&#8217;re not already signed in).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Look at the top right corner for the Gear Icon (Settings).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Click it, then click the button that says &#8220;See all settings.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2026\/aigmail.png\" alt=\"Keeping the AI Robots Out of Your Inbox: A Guide to Gmail Privacy\nCloudeight InfoAve\" width=\"473\" height=\"356\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">You\u2019ll land on a page with a lot of tabs. Stay on the one labeled General (it\u2019s usually the first one). Scroll down about halfway until you see these Smart Features&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Uncheck the box next to Smart features.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2026\/aigmail1.png\" alt=\"Keeping the AI Robots Out of Your Inbox: A Guide to Gmail Privacy\nCloudeight InfoAve\" width=\"600\" height=\"365\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">\u00a0* A pop-up window will appear&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2026\/aigmail2.png\" alt=\"Keeping the AI Robots Out of Your Inbox: A Guide to Gmail Privacy\nCloudeight InfoAve\" width=\"597\" height=\"197\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">If you value privacy more than you need a robot to finish your sentences, click &#8220;Turn off and reload.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Keeping the AI Robots Out of Your Inbox: A Guide to Gmail Privacy This tip is for everyone using a free Gmail account AI is everywhere, and it&#8217;s also in your Gmail account. If the idea of AI &#8220;learning&#8221; from your private emails\u2014even if it&#8217;s just to help you write a better email reply\u2014feels a little bit\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/keeping-the-ai-robots-out-of-your-inbox-a-guide-to-gmail-privacy\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4421,1461,4484,1751,4515],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31352,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31351\/revisions\/31352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}