EDIT: The Malwarebytes article has been updated:
"After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case."
This confusion could've been easily avoided if Google was more clear in how they communicate with their users.
ORIGINAL:
PSA to anyone who uses Gmail!
"Reportedly, Google has recently started automatically opting users in to allow Gmail to access all private messages and attachments for training its AI models. This means your emails could be analyzed to improve Google’s AI assistants, like Smart Compose or AI-generated replies. Unless you decide to take action."
Note to self: look for anything called #SmartFeatures and disagree for them to be used. Wording about compliance may well change, and be sure to look out for them again every once in a while. #Google is now just partner a bigger Thing called #Alphabet which has other manifestations including (? tbc)