How to check if your Google Drive files are being used for AI training
Samowens44 · reddit · 2026-10-17
A user shares how to check whether Google Drive files are being used for AI training, along with the full conversation they had with Microsoft Copilot.
Key points
- Google's Workspace documentation has long promised that Drive/Gmail/Docs data is not used to train generative AI like Gemini without permission.
- However, the conversation cites a newer privacy policy shift: documents, images, audio, video and uploads in Drive, Docs and Photos may be used for AI training by default, unless users opt out.
- The claimed opt-out is turning off Web & App Activity in Google Activity Controls (myactivity.google.com/activitycontrols).
- The author verified their setting was already off.
Caveat: the policy-change claim comes from Copilot's answer, including a dubious "July 2026 report" — verify against Google's official policy pages.
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