Gmail Users Can Now Use These Three AI Features Without Paying

[Kar98]

What GMail users CAN’T do is create folders so they can take their entire AI riddled website and keep it.

 

[turbineseaplane]

I have no 'deal' if I'm not a Gmail user, and I can't stop the recipients of my email using it, or even know if they are using it or not.

You can't opt out if that is the concern.

Why would you think you could opt out of what happens to email you send to other people?

 

[burgman]

Because Apple Intelligence in mails is so much better

If I turn off Apple Intelligence but leave it on in individual apps, does Apple still collect my data? It's a pain to go to every app and turn it off. Three choices are on by default.

 

[MacMan988]

I sense a lot of "cloud services are bad, settle for less to protect privacy" kind of vibe here.

 

[iPay]

I sense a lot of "cloud services are bad, settle for less to protect privacy" kind of vibe here.

Nah, they need more data than paying customers can produce, so they prefer to open the eavesdropping facility for free. Of course, we pay otherwise.

 

[Skyscraperfan]

Coming from Google that is very creepy. What could possible go wrong, if Google analyzes your emails.

 

[OneDunya]

Free until it becomes yet another subscription fee in order to keep using the formerly "free" features after people get used to using them. Another example of "en********ation" as described by Cory Doctorow.

 

[963852741]

OH MY GOD whole 3 AI features without paying. /S

 

[turbineseaplane]

Everyone is paying, just not directly with their wallet.

 

[963852741]

Incredible how Alphabet has adopted AI to their fully verticially integrated AI-system.
Alphabet is firing on all cylinders while Apple remains "AI = Apple Incompetence".

I for one am happy they don't go crazy on this rot.

 

[Populus]

I run my Gmail through the Apple email client. It keeps things nice and simple.

Yeah, me too, but on the server side, we don’t know if this AI assistant is reading all of our mail.

 

[963852741]

Yeah, me too, but on the server side, we don’t know if this AI assistant is reading all of our mail.

It does.

 

[Londo Mollari 2]

I want to apply polish, not Polish 🇵🇱 (as it says in the article).

Przepraszam, piszę tylko w wersji amerykańskiej po polsku.

 

[The Game 161]

spark al mail is really good for al features but yeah got to pay

 

[Biro]

Yeah, me too, but on the server side, we don’t know if this AI assistant is reading all of our mail.

Of course it is. It’s Google.

 

[trusso]

Awesome! Now I can… still not use them. 😏

 

[Powerbooky]

"...without paying"...for now!

People already pay... with their data. And companies too, sharing all their company data.

 

[artifex]

AI summary from the same system that just gave me this in Google's Discover tab:

... but the actual article is an interview with an actor about a playlist he'd make. Probably just theoretical, as a way to learn more about the guy; haven't read it through and I'm on mobile right now. But obviously not an interview with Paul Simon.

edit: got to my desktop and shrunk the image; sorry about that

 

[macduke]

Oh, you WILL pay. It just won’t be in dollars and cents. But you will pay. AI extracts its pound of flesh from everyone. And that goes double for any product from Google.

 

[svish]

Not sure how much privacy is being lost by using these AI features. For now I have turned off 'Smart Features'.

 

[Populus]

Awesome! Now I can… still not use them. 😏

The problem isn’t that much if we use it or stop using it, but also many professionals use Gmail as their email service. And everything we send to them will be scrutinized and “learned” by their AI.

What a mess of world we are building…

 

[dba415]

What GMail users CAN’T do is create folders so they can take their entire AI riddled website and keep it.

Gmail has never been about folders. It's about labels

 

[Kar98]

Gmail has never been about folders. It's about labels

I know, that’s what I’m complaining about.

 

[Ja50n]

We’re all paying, indirectly. Try to buy a stick of RAM today.

 

[MacBH928]

save yourself from big brother and support privacy respecting alternatives. Proton, Tuta, and hopefully Fastmail