Reduce Your AI Exposure

Reduce Your AI Exposure

This may be a lost cause, but this post provides some guidance for disabling AI features in certain products. This instructions may not be complete and the vendors are likely to add additional features and obfuscate them. Note also that anyone who accesses your data, such as a forwarded email or shared document, may not have disabled these features. I highly recommend moving personal communications to secure technologies such as Proton.

Published to: https://deliverystack.net/2025/11/21/reduce-your-ai-exposure/

In gmail on a desktop browser:

  1. Click Settings (the gear icon) and then See all settings.
  2. Click the General tab.
  3. Find Google Workspace smart features in the list on the left.
  4. Click Manage Workspace smart feature settings.
  5. Disable the Smart features in Google workspace and Smart features in other Google products options, and then click Save.
  6. Find Smart features in the list on the left (you may need to scroll up).
  7. Clear the checkbox for Turn on smart features in Gmail, Chat, and Meet.

In LinkedIn on a desktop browser:

  1. Click the arrow under your profile icon, and then click Settings & Privacy.
  2. Click Data privacy.
  3. Click Data for Generative AI Improvement.
  4. Disable Use my data for training content creation AI models.