You would have to assume this includes gmail as you are turning that information and metadata over to their servers.
From PC Gamer, July 5:
Google has updated its privacy policy to say that "publicly available" data will be used to train Bard and Cloud AI.
To me, artificial intelligence is a lot like magnets: I have no idea how they work. But I do understand, in a very general sense, that AI is not actually intelligent. It's just data, collected on a massive scale, algorithmically digested, and spit out in conversational tones designed to make us think that the machine is "smart."
The popular versions of these systems, like ChatGPT, live and die based on the amount of data they can harvest, which essentially means they're reliant on you. And in case there's any doubt about what "you" means in this particular context, Google (via Techspot) has updated its privacy policy to explicitly state that pretty much anything you say or do online can be scooped up and used to train its AI models.
Naturally, Google collects data from your online activity, like the stuff you search for, the videos you watch, the things you buy, and the people you talk to, and the location data accessed through your Android mobile device. But "in some circumstances," it also collects information from "publicly accessible sources": If your name appears in a local newspaper article, for instance, Google may index the article and then share it with people searching for your name....
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Related at The Verge:Google’s medical AI chatbot is already being tested in hospitals
And if interested see also:
"How Threads’ Privacy Policy Compares to Twitter’s (and Its Rivals’)"
