Gmail's AI Summaries Now Appear Automatically (theverge.com)
- Reference: 0177868105
- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/05/30/1448240/gmails-ai-summaries-now-appear-automatically
- Source link: https://www.theverge.com/news/676933/gmail-ai-summaries-workspace-android-ios
[1] https://www.theverge.com/news/676933/gmail-ai-summaries-workspace-android-ios
So much for effective communication, eh? (Score:5, Insightful)
So instead of teaching people to write concise, to-the-point emails, we instead let them ramble on and use AI to communicate what they really intended to say.
This doesn't solve the TLDR problem, it only makes it worse by encouraging people to waste time writing emails that others simply won't read.
Re: (Score:1)
Your comment reminded me of a phrase from the essay Politics and The English Language by George Orwell:
prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house.
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[1]https://www.orwellfoundation.c... [orwellfoundation.com]
[1] https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/politics-and-the-english-language/
whew! (Score:2)
"saved me the trouble enabling the feature".
Aside from the word 'the', you could pretty much put ironic quotes around every word individually in that quoted sentence.
I'm sure glad google is thinking about me and my workload.
Sucks (Score:2)
The summaries are terrible, they leave out important info.
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Came here to say that. If you want to misunderstand everything sent to you, just read the summary!
I'm glad I don't use gmail...
Re: Sucks (Score:1)
Web search too. Mostly takes up screen space telling me something I already know. Occasionally wrong. Often irrelevant. Never has the detailed information I actually searched for.
Fucking waste.
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So they'd be perfect for Slashdot?
MS's mantra (Score:3)
Features so good they have to force people to use them.
Doesn't it seem as though the past 10+ years of software development has seen just about everything get worse?
@gmail.com is the new @aol.com (Score:1)
I tried to switch to DuckDuckGo from Google search several times since 2012 or so. Initially, it didn't take. But on the third or fourth try, it did: I've now been a DDG user for three full years, rarely using Google search except as a rare fallback. This isn't so much because DDG got incredibly better; it is more because Google search got incredibly worse.
The switch to ProtonMail was even easier. I switched to ProtonMail to Gmail in 2012, and never looked back. It is just better. In addition to the privacy
Can't disable either (Score:2)
I can't disable it, especially on my phone. Very annoying knowing I'm contributing to the climate disaster without even trying. I got rid of some of the buttons with uBlock Origin previously...
"You can ask it anything!" "Ask it to fuck off!"
Ick. (Score:2)
Do not want.