Nick Perry explains why you shouldn't give Claude your real Gmail password. Instead, create a Google app password in two minutes: it's a single-use credential you can instantly revoke if Claude gets compromised, protecting all your other accounts.
Never ever give Claude your real Gmail password. Like, just think about it for a second. How many sites and apps do you use your Gmail account to log into? Like, if your Gmail password gets leaked, then all those accounts could be hacked. So instead, do what the AI experts do and create an app password for Claude. This is a deletable one-time password that Google makes for one specific app. So if Claude got hacked, all you would need to do is delete that password and you're safe.
