I have used Gmail for many years, but lately they're really pushing the AI crap that I absolutely, 100%, do not want. If a friend and I are emailing casually about yarn, I do not want this:
No! None of that! I didn't mind so much when it wanted to suggest answers (although, why was it always trying to get me to reply "Indeed, it is the only thing that does"?), but this is a bridge too far.
I tried to figure out how to turn it off, but the setting I changed took away the Important and Unread category at the top of the inbox, so I was getting notifications for every single email that came in. I don't want an alert when CVS sends me a new offer, or The Athletic wants to highlight a story, or the Boston Globe sends a Breaking News Alert (that is about the Patriots ~50% of the time).
I like the setup the way it is, but of course they can't just leave it that way, can they? And yet, whose email provider doesn't use AI these days?
I'm getting a lot of that crap too. I can write my own emails and Facebook messages!
ReplyDeleteRight? I wish they would stop pushing this on me.
DeleteI would suggest googling how to turn off AI in gmail but instead I would recommend using duckduckgo as your search engine (and also as your browser - I use it for everything I can) and look up how to turn off access to all “smart” features. I tried to send the link to the best result but it wouldn’t let me.
ReplyDeleteI quite dislike the prompted scripted instant-responses. But I only get them on my gmail account, the one through my own domain has been spared. Yay.
ReplyDeleteI dislike how instead of giving you an answer from Wikipedia, they make it an AI-generated more anonymous thing that could be from anywhere on the web as far as I know. Wikipedia--which they may still use for it, I don't know--at least has moderators and minders and a presumption of intended truth behind it.
Preach. I hate this shit.
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