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Krinal Mehta's avatar

Like the direction of thought here, don’t think Gmail or any major email for that matter could be leveraged to train a public model, far too risky because of the nature of all the private and confidential information in there.

That said, what G and M are both doing is using it at the user level, which will continue to give them an edge. Google has your search history, your GPS, your browsing history, your app history (G apps) , among other things. Add emails to that list and that training dataset is hard to replicate for anyone else as a leverage for their LLM. The delta is too big to travel.

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John Crockett's avatar

I agree here Nick. AI is moving so quickly that it's hard to look far down the road sometimes, but this fundamental shift is going to upend the future of the web. A decade ago, we had an unspoken agreement with Google that we would give them information in exchange for traffic, and now that agreement is null and void. Companies everywhere are going to find ways to protect their IP while still scouring for prospects.

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