Gmail AI gets more intrusive

https://daveverse.org/2025/11/07/gmail-ai-gets-even-more-intrusive/

by speckx • 9 months ago

260 164 9 months ago

verdverm3• 9 months ago

100% Google has been making their AI more intrusive and in your face across all their portfolio. It's not just Google, Atlassian is doing the same

With search in gcloud, the drop-down top 2/3 is ai calls to action. Completely useless because their suggestions are so bad and for such basic tasks that I never do.

It feels like in platform advertising.

I've left them feedback, and since they've only doubled down, am now reducing my spend

Moving to Cloudflare, if you're curious

dangoor• 9 months ago

Cloudflare has a gmail competitor?

NewJazz• 9 months ago

Not really 1:1 but I did find this

https://www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/products/email...

verdverm3• 9 months ago

No, mainly focused on my cloud infra right now. Finding an alt to gmail+gsuite is something I'd like to do if there were reasonable options, but that involves non tech people also being open to that option

Hammershaft2• 9 months ago

IDK about Cloudflare but Fastmail is excellent.

bamboozled• 9 months ago

I hate the “AI mode”

IncreasePosts• 9 months ago

Did the user accidentally keep hitting Alt+H? Or are they part of some experiment? Gmail writes nothing for me unless I click the "help me write" link. I also don't know why it is so hard to record a screenshot of the behavior, you can write it to example@example.com, and the draft email UI can be clipped from where it shows your email address.

spankalee3• 9 months ago

Yeah, I don't know what he's talking about.

I see obviously AI-powered tab-completion suggestions, and the Alt-H prompt suggestion when first writing an email, but I've never had it actually insert text unprompted.

gs17• 9 months ago

Gmail writes nothing for me unless I click the "help me write" link.

For me it sometimes (I'm not sure why, it isn't even "intelligent" about which emails have options, automatic noreply@ emails sometimes have it) has buttons to pre-fill a reply with a message out of a few choices. It's not unprompted, but I could see someone accidentally clicking it instead of the reply button.

merelysounds• 9 months ago

Anecdotally, I don’t see any of this. I have all “smart” features in gmail turned off; there is an option like this in the settings.

Google’s Help: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/15604322

Also relevant:

By default, smart feature settings are off if you live in: The European Economic Area, Japan, Switzerland, United Kingdom

protoster• 9 months ago

This is often the case with Google products because the A/B testing is rampant.

kyrra• 9 months ago

This. You can disable all smart features (which includes things like mail categories, AI auto-complete, and most things that look at your emails).

Gear -> All Settings -> General tab (default) -> Smart features: Turn on smart features in Gmail, Chat, and Meet

Linked help page: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/15604322

pera• 9 months ago

I really wished they would also let you disable those very annoying modal popups announcing yet-another-chatbot-integration twice a week: My company is already paying for your product, just let me do my work ffs...

echelon• 9 months ago

You can disable all smart features

For how long?

You don't own the platform. Google PMs may decide to roll it out to everyone at some point to hit numbers.

mrweasel2• 9 months ago

How many would turn them on if they defaulted to "Off"? Probably not enough to justify the development cost.

adriand• 9 months ago

I would really love it if there was a "smart setting" (or a dumb setting) to prevent people from sending me their drip marketing spam. The spam filtering in my personal Gmail is adequate, if not perfect (I really don't understand how the constant life insurance spam is getting through). But my main client uses Google Workspace or GSuite or whatever it is called these days, and my inbox for that email features a constant barrage of drip campaign garbage.

Are Google's incentives misaligned in some way here? It's not like the heuristics are particularly difficult for this kind of email. Some of it even has unsubscribe links (I didn't subscribe), or, "If you don't want to hear from me again, just let me know", etc.

reaperducer2• 9 months ago

Some of it even has unsubscribe links (I didn't subscribe), or, "If you don't want to hear from me again, just let me know", etc.

I don't know if this counts as "drip marketing" (a new term to me), but just this week Apple spammed me with some Apple Card offer for Hertz car rentals.

No way to unsubscribe. No link. No mention of unsubscribing at all. And on the Apple Card web site, no way to turn off marketing emails.

I wish you could still report these spam's to the FTC.

andrewl-hn2• 9 months ago

I run my email via imap and haven't seen GMail web UI for at least 15 years. Apple does some minor changes to Mail app but generally they follow "if it ain't broke don't fix it" motto, and I really appreciate that. Besides, I have email from Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and FastMail in the same app, and I really appreciate that all email for me looks the same.

dmd• 9 months ago

Good for you. 9999 out of 10,000 people don't know what a "gmail web UI" is, or even that there's something called email that is separate from the gmail web interface.

rcMgD2BwE72F• 9 months ago

I turned on Fastmail and all the AI bullshit went away for good. No regrets.

Hammershaft2• 9 months ago

Very happy with fastmail. It's amazing how much better the user experience (and speed performance!) is.

charlieyu12• 9 months ago

A client emailed me for a meeting at Monday 2pm. The Gmail AI immediately marked Monday 2am on my calendar and it cannot even be deleted.

pinkmuffinere• 9 months ago

Wow i really hope this is a mistake, that sounds like a severe bug

mort96• 9 months ago

Well it's not a "bug". Language models make mistakes; it's a fundamental part of how they function.

warkdarrior• 9 months ago

Bizarre, I can always delete things from my calendar. It sounds like an implementation bug. Did you report it?

ebiester• 9 months ago

Since when did Google pay attention to implementation bugs?

charlieyu12• 9 months ago

It was like a month ago, but it was not possible to delete if AI added it, even their community support confirmed so

golem142• 9 months ago

It's amazon deliveries for me. Gmail gets confused about multi-item orders with different delivery dates, and I cannot click away the banners displaying on top of the mailbox. Really poor UI.

OTOH, it's nice to see that there is some innovation happening - eventually (I am an optimist) they will weed out the lousy stuff and keep the useful.

NelsonMinar• 9 months ago

Could use a more reliable source for this report.

I paid for and tried Google AI for Gmail and was appalled at how bad it is. The product team there is really not executing well. I've switched now to Shortwave. It works very well and having LLM+RAG queries for 20+ years of email archives has been very helpful to me.

cpursley• 9 months ago

I’ve found the email thread summary pretty useful ymmv.

pflenker• 9 months ago

Tangentially related, the AI integrated in Google Chat is hilariously bad. Find a thread which starts with „Bug: (…)“ that has 90+ answers. Hey, an AI could be useful here! Click summarize. Wait. Without fail the result will be along the lines of „X, Y and Z discuss a bug.“

londons_explore• 9 months ago

It would be fine if you could then reply with 'no, please tell me about the nature of the bug not the people involved', and then have it remember that forever.

However nearly nobody seems to correctly implement this user-wide memory.

renewiltord2• 9 months ago

Yeah, you gotta watch out for this stuff. The other day I was using Gmail when it just gave me a million dollars. I gave it to charity under an assumed name.

Can’t screenshot without revealing the name but I think it’s actually super cool of Google to do this. Just distributed charity. With no benefit to themselves.

They did say that they did it based on my Google Photos showing that I was really good looking (can’t share because of privacy) so there’s some privacy stuff there but overall I think it’s good.

shortrounddev2• 9 months ago

I moved to ProtonMail right before their CEO started mouthing off about his dipshit opinions. I still use them because it's cheaper to pay for a family plan and get a VPN, password manager, and storage along with the email. I used to pay for each of these services individually and was paying 2x what I pay now

renewiltord2• 9 months ago

ProtonMail also does this. Someone actually told me they got an email from me and when I checked it said “this mail was AI generated”. I can’t screenshot it though. Personal reasons.

barbazoo• 9 months ago

I used to pay for each of these services individually and was paying 2x what I pay now

What's the other factor though and is it worth the getting walled in?

Password manager in my opinion has to be its own thing, has nothing to do with the rest, same for VPN. I can see email, calendar and data being close together as being beneficial in every day flow. That's where Fastmail for instance draws the line I think.

If you untangle these, would the cost not be worth the benefit?

doctorpangloss• 9 months ago

ha ha, hey google PMs, here's a useful AI feature:

Is this e-mail marketing something?

QuercusMax• 9 months ago

I recently noticed that some of the emails in my gmail "promotions" inbox aren't emails at all, and are actually undeletable ads from Google.

roryirvine• 9 months ago

If you're willing to use the web ui rather than the native app, then uBlock Origin will successfully remove those ads.

Otherwise, you could always just switch the "promotions" tab off - the contents will show up in your main inbox, but without the ads.

azhenley• 9 months ago

This is why I am building a better AI for my inbox.

psygn89• 9 months ago

Can it can help answer my questions on behalf of my clients that use gmail?

apparent3• 9 months ago

And yet google's spam filters still let through so much AI slop spam. Any email from a new sender should be suspect, and if it has an awkwardly phrased opt-out line ("if you'd rather not hear from me again, just shoot me a "leave out"") then it should presumptively be marked as spam.

jeffbee4• 9 months ago

Spam classification has virtually zero to do with the contents of the message.

apparent3• 9 months ago

I have the gmail app set to only notify me for "important messages," and it pretty reliably doesn't trigger a notification for this junk. I wish I could have it use that system (whatever it's using) to actually flag messages as spam/mass emails.

If it's a seemingly personal message from an unknown sender, send it to spam. If it looks like a mass email (that someone might have signed up for), then put it in the Commercial tab or whatever it's called, so I can set up a filter for it or unsubscribe.

notatoad2• 9 months ago

am i missing something here, or is this really just a random two-sentence gripe from some guy, complaining about something that nobody else can reproduce?

"dave is mad at gmail". okay dave.

reaperducer2• 9 months ago

am i missing something here, or is this really just a random two-sentence gripe from some random guy, complaining about something that nobody else can reproduce?

You have just summarized HN, and most of social media and the blogosphere, in 2025.

The internet is 44% angry people getting off on being angry about nothing.

notatoad2• 9 months ago

i feel like HN is usually at least a little bit better than this.

the comments are often full of silly gripes, but they don't usually get voted up to the top of the homepage and stay there for hours

uptown• 9 months ago

GMail started inserting package delivery notifications at the top of my inbox screen. Not exactly ideal for Christmas shopping with family milling about. If you turn it off, you lose the tabs for email categorization, so instead I wrote a CSS rule to hide it permanently, but it's a bad feature.

jeffbee4• 9 months ago

Not sure what you mean here. You can disable package status and still keep tabbed inbox.

einpoklum• 9 months ago

Please do yourself and the world a measure of good, and stop using GMail. Giving someone a GMail address is like saying "Yes, I like to be abused, I like to be violated and have no privacy". It is quite embarrassing - and people who are tech-savvy should be telling their colleagues and peers that it is embarrassing and inappropriate.

Yes, I realize that dropping the GMail mailbox does not mean you are free from GMail, because of all of the other people on it. But we must each make some effort to chip away at that thing. Twenty years ago, when Microsoft's hold on PCs was much stronger than it is today, online venues were inundated with derision and denouncement of them and their practices; but these days - it's as though Alphabet/Google control of all these aspects of so many people's lives is just neutral reality, ho-hum, nothing to waste time thinking about.

hilbert423• 9 months ago

I'm truly thankful I deleted my Gmail account years ago and my smartphone has no account and no g-apps.

Do we have to riot in the streets before governments regulate this shit?

nichos2• 9 months ago

Why regulate it? You don't have to use it (as you clearly moved elsewhere). Out of curiosity, where did you move to?

hilbert423• 9 months ago

"Why regulate it?"

That doesn't require an answer—both sides of the fence already well know the reasons and they're diametrically opposite.

I didn't move anywhere, what gave you the impression I did?

Animats• 9 months ago

You have to wonder what Gmail reports about you. Does it detect suicidal thoughts? Child sexual abuse? Antifa activity?

spankalee3• 9 months ago

I've never flagged a submission before, but I just have to with this one.

There's no evidence, no blurred-out screen shot even, no one here has seen this behavior in the comments, and I can't find any corroborating reports on the web.

Who knows what's really happening or not here?

andy992• 9 months ago

Anyone remember the news story about Metallica copyrighting G and F chords? It’s sort of like that, true or not it’s so on brand that people just accept it, it doesn’t tell you something you did already know about how google (or Metallica) behave.

https://www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm?newsid=575...

Permit• 9 months ago

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/1505312920-20170913%20(1)...

brazukadev• 9 months ago

I just flagged yours because I don't think it makes any sense to flag the post much less posting about flagging it - especially when you said you are an ex-googler.

Life continues, move on, defending Google enshitfication online after being laid off is extra work for no payment, you can rest.

jimt1234• 9 months ago

Where I work, we get tons of feedback from customers, basically saying, "How do I disable this new AI feature? I never asked for this." Yet, the guidance from leadership is very clear: "More AI!" I suspect it's like this at Google (and everywhere else), too.

glerk• 9 months ago

Google must have some awful PMs and designers. The worst UX decision I have seen recently is AI auto-dubbing all youtube videos by default with no way to disable this behavior globally. How could you miss that people can be fluent in multiple languages and if I click on a video in a foreign language, I most likely want the original soundtrack? Clearly, the intention was to boost some metric “X users are using this feature” with no regard for the actual user.

jack_pp• 9 months ago

+1, this is the most annoying YouTube feature I've ever come across. Gave them feedback on it.. maybe more people should complain

jimmyl02• 9 months ago

if it increases topline metrics like watch time it's probably hard for them to justify removing it. a change this big seems like it was probably a/b tested and did move metrics significantly?

MetaMalone• 9 months ago

I just experienced this and was wondering why it was happening!

wenderen• 9 months ago

In addition to the feature being auto-on (for me, at least) and unasked-for, you also need to perform multiple clicks through non-obvious menus (I think one of them was "Audio track"?) to get to the original audio. Another layer of obnoxiousness.

littlestymaar3• 9 months ago

I don't even know how to get the original video title back…

RajT882• 9 months ago

The worst UX decision I have seen recently is AI auto-dubbing all youtube videos by default with no way to disable this behavior globally.

Recently anyways. The most egregious thing about Youtube, which is not terribly new, is the Shorts. If your video is short enough, it is auto-converted to a "Short", and the original aspect ratio gets cropped to be vertical orientation (for viewing on a phone, presumably).

mikepurvis• 9 months ago

That is extraordinarily hostile to both creators and consumers.

copperroof2• 9 months ago

The most irritating thing for me now is that YouTube doesn’t work in my browser anymore. Clearly being a/b tested because sometimes it does, and sometimes it spews out thousands of console errors and doesn’t load anything.

rurp• 9 months ago

It's wild how disrespectful this is to viewers and content creators. Google literally couldn't care less what people want, it's just a machine that optimizes for whatever KPIs a given manager has that quarter, users be damned.

Of course Google doesn't have to care about users because they have a dozen different monopolies. It's sad that they were allowed to get to this point.

incangold• 9 months ago

Important content and information I want is on YouTube. I pay a YouTube subscription.

I have ADHD. YouTube shorts are poison. I don’t want them. I keep clicking “not interested”. They go away for a bit, they come back, I waste hours of my life scrolling through them before I notice. I click “not interested” 20 more times to get a few days relief…

Even when you’re the customer, you’re not the customer.

AlphaDev2025• 8 months ago

I personally feel it would be best to stop watching shorts itself, and I personally feel the best way to block it is using some chrome extension for atleast the desktop... I use

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/shortsblocker-and-r...

mtmail• 9 months ago

Quite happy with an extension which disables the feature (not happy with Youtube forcing the feature). https://github.com/YouG-o/YouTube-No-Translation

bikelang• 9 months ago

I don’t think it’s just google. Modern product management feels broken across the whole industry. Do these guys even talk to customers anymore?

metalliqaz• 9 months ago

Yeah, they do. It's just that the customers have changed. Once they were the viewers, then the advertisers, and now that monopoly power is secure, the "customers" of those PMs are the financial backers.

itopaloglu83• 9 months ago

I think this is where “ you’re the product, advertisers are the customers” comes in.

OhMeadhbh• 9 months ago

I complained about the same problem a while ago. There are a few recommendations for alternative YT interfaces that don't seem to be as messed up yet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45503218

And apropos of nothing... there's another link on the front page at the moment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45850430 ) talking about Apple crossing the red line of customer satisfaction. This got me thinking... to Alphabet, you're not the customer, you're the product. YouTube is a sugary trap to lure eyeballs into the advosphere.

xp843• 9 months ago

YouTube is one of the better ones -- sort of -- in that you can simply pay with a very small amount of money rather than by wasting a ton of time on ads.

Only "sort of" though since they still use the same spammy algorithm-driven timeline and Shorts and stuff, and are clearly still trying to maximize your total watch time. Given that I just pay a fixed fee, I wish they'd use a different algorithm that only seeks to keep my engagement with YouTube from dipping too low, rather than the default which is clearly designed to turn a 23-hour-a-day user into 24.

anigbrowl• 9 months ago

I watch about 50% Japanese content and having to switch this off manually has become a major source of annoyance. Bizarrely, if I misunderstand something in Japanese and want to go back to check, these same videos normally don't have any English subtitles available. There's auto-transcribed Japanese subtitles which are about 90% accurate, but they're rarely translated.

The absolutely wild disparity in compute required to translate the Japanese text to English vs rendering an entirely new soundtrack in English blows my mind. I guess someone at Google thought it made sense because many people prefer dubs to subs, but that's on highly polished entertainment product vs 1-person-and-their-Japanese-vlog channels which are not aiming at a mass audience.

majorchord• 9 months ago

https://github.com/YouG-o/YouTube-No-Translation does the trick for me.

m4tthumphrey• 9 months ago

This happened to me for the first (and only time so far) the other day on a video that wasn’t even in another language but from an guy who sometimes posts in another language (but usually in English) but does have a strong German (I think) accent. I was so confused at first and it took me a while to figure out what was going on as I could tell his voice was weird and then noticed the audio was completely out of sync.

cyanydeez• 9 months ago

I assume all UX designers are replaced by marketing.

w-m• 9 months ago

Go to your Google account settings; add the languages you speak and don’t want auto translations for in your personal profile.

I agree that the auto dubbing is the worst feature. It may have been HN where I read the above tip to turn that off, it seems to have worked for me so far.

Krssst• 9 months ago

This is not sufficient for me, I keep getting surprise AI dubs for videos in languages I declared I understand (same for video titles). Fortunately there's a Firefox extension that solved the issue for me but I keep encountering the problem on the Android application.

forgotTheLast• 9 months ago

Reddit does the same for comment. It's on by default and the quality of translations isn't good. Completely jarring

raincole3• 9 months ago

Reddit has machine-translated their whole site in different languages and made these translated versions google-indexed. That polluted google result severely. As if google weren't bad enough today.

estimator7292• 9 months ago

I always immediately hid "don't recommend channel" on auto-dubbed videos without even opening them. Maybe a flood of negative impressions on all of non-English YouTube will draw some attention. Maybe not. It doesn't matter.

YouTube is also applying "AI enhancement" to videos. Several people have had their videos replaced with a mangled version that flashes bright rapid flickering static through the background. It's a genuine epilepsy danger and the channel owner has no control. If they complain to YouTube the video sometimes is silently replaced with the original (until the bots get to it again). Otherwise they can only repeatedly re-upload the video.

It's insane how desperate all of tech is to quintuple down on the sunk cost of AI

zulban• 9 months ago

They also translate video titles which cannot even be turned off. Very annoying, low quality, and confusing.

graemep3• 9 months ago

Google have always had problems with people who do not fit - e.g. speaking multiple languages, not speaking the majority language in their country ec.

I remember back when i had a site with Google ads on it (about 15 or 20 years ago) I could not change some selection to do with what ads were shown on my .co.uk site to UK because I was not in the UK at the time.

There were other issues with default language assumptions, which were worse as they changed over time. They really should respect browser settings.

Its not just Google. A lot of websites use national flags for languages, which has practical problems in countries that speak many languages, and frequently has political overtones.

sznio2• 9 months ago

Google have always had problems with people who do not fit - e.g. speaking multiple languages

More people speak multiple languages than just one

sgentle• 9 months ago

It's been like this for decades. Remember Google+? Remember Google Talk/Chat/Hangouts/Meet/Allo/Duo etc? The company simply values internal political advantage over coherent product development or user experience.

At Google, you're not the customer, and you're not even the product; you're a metric in a promo packet. Your value in the "AI engagement" column vastly exceeds your value as a satisfied user. The system is working as intended.

LetsGetTechnicl• 9 months ago

What? I had no idea this was a feature! I guess I don't watch that much content in other languages. I'd assume even if someone wasn't multi-lingual, I'd prefer subs written or translated by the creator, not some AI bot.

estebarb• 9 months ago

Something I noticed recently is that titles of youtube videos are automatically translated.

I'm convinced that nobody in Google speaks more than one language, otherwise they would have never done that. It is impossible to turn off the unsolicited translations in search, and now youtube. I'm scared that soon they will force up audio translation as well.

machomaster3• 9 months ago

It's not only the titles, but the descriptions as well. And viewers can't turn this behavior off, only the channel creator can and most will not.

randerson• 9 months ago

I've been a long-time Gmail user with a paid plan. But recently two issues are annoying me enough that I'm considering leaving:

1. The incessant "Using Gmail to run your business?" upsells. No, I'm unemployed and this is a personal account. Unlike the AI upsell, I can't seem to dismiss this permanently. It just snoozes it until the next time I open it.

2. The Search bar has become dangerously glitchy (at least in Firefox for Mac) if you type fast and have keyboard shortcuts on. It lets me type 1 or 2 characters before it starts treating every character as a shortcut, inadvertently deleting, muting, archiving emails. Search is what sets Gmail apart and now it is unusable. I reported this bug to Google months ago and my patience is running thin.

thunderbong• 9 months ago

I've always found the Gmail search bar glitchy on Firefox but never on Chrome browsers.

I'll be typing something in the search box and suddenly I'll end up navigating somewhere with the keyboard focus having gotten removed from there.

MinimalAction• 9 months ago

I can see how it is useful: for some people, reading and writing emails is a dreadful activity. But it is also an important facet of every human activity -- communication. So, it better be intentional and clear. I have turned off all smart features and let me handle how to say what I want to say.

troyvit• 9 months ago

Man I was in a Google News Initiative meeting and they started with a "fun poll" where they asked how you'd feel if you read an email that you knew was written by AI. Lots of people didn't mind knowing that was the case, and it was mainly for the reasons you put out writing emails is legit not fun for a lot of people.

Man I was so triggered though, like old-man-yelling-at-clouds level. Then I went back through gmail and exactly one of the last 50 most recent emails I've received was not an alert or a newsletter or an invite. IOW out of my last 50 emails only one of them would've fit the bill for an AI-written correspondence taking the place of a human-written one. All that butt-hurt and it doesn't even matter.

So long way of getting around to saying that your point about intentionality and clarity is clutch, and if people can get that with AI-written emails maybe I can cool my jets.

butz• 9 months ago

Is there a way to suspend/disable Gmail account in a way, that no bad actors could overtake it, after Google disables/deletes(?) it after period of two years?

david_van_loon• 9 months ago

I've seen no indications of this supposed feature in my own experience or other sources. The article does not provide any evidence to support its claims.

phyzome• 9 months ago

...I'm confused, is there something I'm missing in this post? I only see 4 sentences, with almost no information.

havaloc• 9 months ago

One of my tech clients emailed me about a Roku problem and one of the AI suggestions in Gmail was to tell the customer to try unplugging a Roku for a minute and plugging it back in. I pressed that button, proofread the suggested text, and hit send.

In truth it felt both amazing and made me uneasy, for AI was encroaching on my career of telling people to reboot their errant device.

isaachinman• 9 months ago

For anyone looking for a cross-platform, local-first IMAP email client that "just works" and doesn't jam AI down your throat, check us out:

https://marcoapp.io

stOneskull• 9 months ago

i do about 95% of my emailing in thunderbird on my computer, and 5% in the gmail app on my phone or on the specific email's website. all imap so they're basically synced already. i'm wondering if your marco app will be useful for my use case, and what the benefits would be. i think i would lose some benefits such as thunderbird extensions. also, to use proton mail on my phone i think i need the protonmail app. i use the proton bridge to use it in thunderbird. would the marco app work with proton on computer but not on phone?

testdelacc1• 9 months ago

All this AI is great. What I really want is to clean up my inbox by seeing where the mails are coming from. What I want is `select sender, count(*) from emails group by 1 order by 2 desc` or the equivalent. But I guess that doesn’t juice the stock price like AI does.

pseufaux• 9 months ago

Unrelated, but if you have an iPhone, I use Chuck for this. The free tier is plenty if you just want to use it to clean up the inbox.

https://chuck.email

DANmode2• 8 months ago

Gmail can “Filter Messages Like This”,

in a number of algorithmic ways,

when a message row is selected.

sodapopcan• 9 months ago

Stop using Google products.

alex11382• 9 months ago

Do one thing and do it well, you assholes

Be dumb pipes

Google has already arguably ruined Youtube, which they own, over a period of many, many years

It doesn't matter if the community does all the work, the company will MITM themselves to make themselves look more important than they are

raincole3• 9 months ago

I'll save you a click:

Gmail doesn't just offer to write your emails for you, they actually do it, and it's up to you to delete the text it wrote.
Hard to make a screen shot to demo without revealing personal info. That's how awful this thing is.
It reeks of desperation.

This is the whole article. That's it. No screenshot. No details. Nothing. Just three random sentences.

200+ upvote on HN btw.

SanjayMehta• 9 months ago

Most of the time I'm on IMAP for gmail et al, so I haven't seen this yet. How long before some Google PM decided to turn off IMAP access?

cat-whisperer• 9 months ago

I agree, but on the same level. The interface of email client and sheets client is so intuitive. It should be a interesting engineering problem to implement AI for these tools.

spreadsheet truly is a universal interface for number crunching, and not being able to use AI inside sheets is a bummer.

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