If you use Google, you’re training its AI. Here’s how to opt out.

PSA: A change to Google's privacy settings let it train its AI on more of your data. Here's how to opt out.

Google Now Uses Your Uploaded Search Media To Train AI

A few simple adjustments to your settings will opt you out of Google's latest AI-training method.

How to opt out of Google’s new AI training default

Google's gonna start using your search-oriented images and audio to train its AI systems — unless you explicitly tell it "no ...
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Google AI can access some content from Gmail and chats. Here's how to opt out

In November 2025, a rumor circulated that Google's latest update had automatically opted in all users to allow its generative artificial intelligence (AI) program to train on private communications ...

Publishers will be able to opt out of AI Search, thanks to new regulation

U.K. regulators are requiring Google offer a tool allowing website publishers to opt-out of generative AI search features. The option will be tested in the UK then rolled out globally.
Digiday

Google’s AI opt-out leaves publishers with a choice they can’t safely use

Publishers have finally won the right to keep their articles out of Google’s AI search results. The harder question now is whether that right is usable when the system keeps them opted in by default, ...
MediaPost

Google Pressured By Publishers To Find AI Overviews Opt-Out

Google is being pressured by a group of independent publishers in the U.K. to stop “misusing web content for Google’s AI Overviews in Google Search." The Independent Publishers Alliance filed an ...
Futurism

Google’s AI Is Scraping Even Sites That Ask to Be Ignored

Add Futurism (opens in a new tab) More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Don’t ...