AI activity in gmail

[GON]

Over the past 24 hours sent a friend two separate correspondences on two distinctly separate subjects. The emails had two replies each.

The last replies from my friend included AI discussions of the correspondences. I thought my friend inputted my correspondences in gemni AI, and copied and pasted the AI response. Thought weird, but interesting. I read the AI information on the gmail application on my Pixel 8 android phone.

An hour later, had my notebook out and went to look closer at the ai replies to the correspondences, using a MSFT browser. No AI in the correspondences. Went back to my android phone, the AI responses inserted in the correspondence still there- plain as day. This is the "ahha" moment, that my friend didn't run the correspondences through AI, android/ gmail did without asking, and posted the AI response without asking. This looked as if my friend sent the AI responses -- yet he had no knowledge of it, nor had any idea what I was seeing in his response to me.

Maybe AI will take over..........this is nuts....... I am sure in some very fine print of a 45 page user agreement in 4 point font I have agreed to give google, and all its affiliates rights to everything I own, will ever own, and my wife and grandsons........

 

[ClutchDisc]

Said goodbye to gmail many years ago. Thanks for confirming I made the right decision.

 

[dishdude]

The recent gmail app update added AI overviews.

 

[CleanSump]

I've had SPAM emails getting through the filter, but no AI overlays yet.

 

[dishdude]

Said goodbye to gmail many years ago. Thanks for confirming I made the right decision.

They're all pushing this AI crap no one wants. Apple just entered an agreement to rebrand Gemini as their AI.

 

[ClutchDisc]

@dishdude I use Protonmail. No such AI over here. Least not yet.

 

[dishdude]

@dishdude I use Protonmail. No such AI over here. Least not yet.

I've been using gmail since it was invitation only, I trust it's security and don't plan to change anytime soon.

 

[K2K2]

@dishdude I use Protonmail. No such AI over here. Least not yet.

I am in the process of leaving g for proton. Privacy is becoming a rare commodity.

 

[Nukeman7]

You can opt to turn off the Google Gemini AI assistant feature in the Gmail settings:

How to Disable Gemini for Gmail

 

[wwillson]

Google's corporate motto is, "Do no harm". That's a sentence fragment, the real motto is, "Do no harm unless you can make hundreds of billions doing so". They are one of the worst companies on the planet.

 

[4wd]

Google's corporate motto is, "Do no harm". That's a sentence fragment, the real motto is, "Do no harm unless you can make hundreds of billions doing so". They are one of the worst companies on the planet.

Their AI spin is already what Google spun as a search engine …
I try not to use them …

 

[wwillson]

Their AI spin is already what Google spun as a search engine …
I try not to use them …

I don't use google search, instead one of their competitors.

 

[The_Jeff]

Thanks, I hate it. I already feel weird having stuff like stock trade confirmations going there.

 

[wwillson]

You can opt to turn off the Google Gemini AI assistant feature in the Gmail settings:

How to Disable Gemini for Gmail

I just did this and no longer get AI summaries and they don't have permission to look at all of my emails. The browser's spell check still works fine. Done.

 

[K2K2]

I don't use google search, instead one of their competitors.

Duck browser search has been pretty good.

 

[uc50ic4more]

I spend a good portion of my working day using Zoom calls or phone over a platform called DialPad. In each case I get AI summaries of my interactions. Most of the time it's hilariously inaccurate, every once in a blue moon its summary will remind of something that I said or promised to the customer; but ALL of the time it's using an enormous amount of electricity to waste everyone's time.

 

[SC Maintenance]

Its free email. There bat, there ball there rules. You are the product.

Corporations don't pay all that money to maintain their own domain for no reason.

 

[mk378]

Google's corporate motto is, "Do no harm"

That is the Hippocratic Oath that doctors are supposed to follow. Google was "Do no evil." But they gave up on that.

 

[Vil_Riker]

The recent gmail app update added AI overviews.

It started doing this to me today.

 

[Vil_Riker]

You can opt to turn off the Google Gemini AI assistant feature in the Gmail settings:

How to Disable Gemini for Gmail

No instructions for the iPhone app?