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Workspace users will be seeing a lot more of Google’s AI summaries soon.
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It used to be that I just assumed Google mined the absolute seven fucks out of my private data.
no need to assume. their legal bullshit (aka user agreement) already says so every time.
Of course, of course. Wouldn’t want to be caught doing anything illegal - that might incur liabilities. Unethical and amoral are fair play though.
“Your Honor, the defense submits - as exhibit A - a six-hundred page lease agreement written in a language that ostensibly resembles English. If you’ll turn to page 497, you’ll note that the woman in question signed away her right to sue for the subsequent rape pursuant to §164, subsection 5…”
Somehow, I don’t think that would fly, but apparently - just like email isn’t legally protected like the kind nobody uses anymore used to be: if it happens online, it’s completely different.
Luckily for the europeans, those agreements are unenforcable.
If the customer doesn’t want the feature:
[]“I don’t want it.”[]“Trust Us, We know what you want better than you do. You want it.”[]“Stop it. I don’t want it. Consent you wanker, do you understand it?”[]"Since you aren’t using the feature, We assume you’re an ignorant unaware of it, so let Use smear it a bit more on your face until you swallow it. "[]“Sod off. And stop putting this bloody shit on my face.”[]“We understand that simple concepts like obedience might be a bit too complex for something like you, but We are fairly tolerant and helpful, so We shall remind you of the feature again. And again. And again.”
If the customer does want the feature:
[]“Okay, I want it. This is cool.”[]“What happened with the feature? It was amazing, why did they kill it?”[]“We’ve replaced it with something better, bigger, flashier. Trust us. It’s better.”[]“It’s completely different. Now it sucks.”
Then proceed as in the first part.
Seriously, the way GAFAM handles AI is just like the first part for plenty people. And it’ll be like the second part, once their marketing teams find another trend to chase. Fuck this shit. I’m glad my email my email is not from Google, but if Yahoo pulls off the same shite I don’t care if my address is 25yo, I’m migrating.
Yahoo did pull this shit. I had to dig through privacy settings in my account, not just the email setting, to turn it off.
Then it’s either unavailable for people using it in Portuguese, or I disabled it too and I don’t remember.
I would believe that it only currently works in English.
Do you mean MAGAF? The F stands for Facebook and fascism.
Bit more context that is needed:
The automatic summaries will appear for all paid Workspace accounts, as well as individual accounts with Google AI Premium subscriptions.
Not for normal Gmail users, and also not for every email - only larger multi-reply ones.
I dunno, seems like an ok feature to me.
Doesn’t change the fact about lack of consent.
Lack of consent for what?
Please read the article again.
Google “read” your emails and feed them into their AI regardless, always have. They don’t need your “consent” to add features or make UI changes.
I’m assuming you actually mean it should’ve been off by default?
It’s absolutely not, because AI will just make up stuff, even if the email is just gibberish. I get assigned jira tasks where the manager turns his 8 word notes into a whole paragraph, except ai does not kow the context, problem or the product he is talking about and just generates some buzzword filler text that is 80% wrong.
If only you could still see the actual emails……
Oh wait, you can!
So it’s just useless noise and shouldn’t even exists just to waste energy? You need to pick a lane.
How did you get that from what I said?
If you don’t trust it you can still read the emails. If you do, you don’t have to read the emails. If want to confirm what it does say a few times until you can decide if you trust it or not, you can do that.
Then what’s the point? If I deliver some code that gets right maybe 4/10 then my boss would tell me to get fucked and never deployed. Yet when companies slap an “AI” sticker on the same bad results it its somehow worth billions and the next hot thing.
I think a summary of an email is going to be right more like 9.5/10 times.
