I, in the UK, recently sent a message to a friend in Michigan, USA, describing my recent medical event, which was a burst varicose vein
blood blister. Blood everywhere, neighbour came over to help, went to
clinic yesterday to get it seen to and bandaged properly, follow-up
next week.
When he received the message on his Yahoo! e-mail screen, it was
preceded by an AI-generated summary. It was not totally accurate. I
have suggested that he look hard and deep for a setting or switch
somewhere in the Settings to turn it off, pronto. He insists that there
was no suggestion that this was going to happen.
Is this what we have to expect now?
Help.........
Is this what we have to expect now?
I, in the UK, recently sent a message to a friend in Michigan, USA, describing my recent medical event, which was a burst varicose vein
blood blister. Blood everywhere, neighbour came over to help, went to
clinic yesterday to get it seen to and bandaged properly, follow-up
next week.
When he received the message on his Yahoo! e-mail screen, it was
preceded by an AI-generated summary. It was not totally accurate. I
have suggested that he look hard and deep for a setting or switch
somewhere in the Settings to turn it off, pronto. He insists that there
was no suggestion that this was going to happen.
Is this what we have to expect now?
Help.........
On Tue, 3/4/2025 1:02 PM, Davey wrote:
I, in the UK, recently sent a message to a friend in Michigan, USA, describing my recent medical event, which was a burst varicose vein
blood blister. Blood everywhere, neighbour came over to help, went
to clinic yesterday to get it seen to and bandaged properly,
follow-up next week.
When he received the message on his Yahoo! e-mail screen, it was
preceded by an AI-generated summary. It was not totally accurate. I
have suggested that he look hard and deep for a setting or switch
somewhere in the Settings to turn it off, pronto. He insists that
there was no suggestion that this was going to happen.
Is this what we have to expect now?
Help.........
Reddit says:
"I turned it off by going to
settings->message preview->then toggle off AI summaries"
at the recipient (Yahoo) end.
Paul
On 04/03/2025 18:02, Davey wrote:
as no suggestion that this was going to happen.
Is this what we have to expect now?
It is if you use shitbag services like Yahoo.
I, in the UK, recently sent a message to a friend in Michigan, USA, describing my recent medical event, which was a burst varicose vein
blood blister. Blood everywhere, neighbour came over to help, went to
clinic yesterday to get it seen to and bandaged properly, follow-up next week.
When he received the message on his Yahoo! e-mail screen, it was
preceded by an AI-generated summary. It was not totally accurate. I have suggested that he look hard and deep for a setting or switch somewhere
in the Settings to turn it off, pronto. He insists that there was no suggestion that this was going to happen.
Is this what we have to expect now?
Help.........
On Tue, 4 Mar 2025 18:08:24 +0000
mm0fmf <none@invalid.com> wrote:
On 04/03/2025 18:02, Davey wrote:
as no suggestion that this was going to happen.
Is this what we have to expect now?
It is if you use shitbag services like Yahoo.
Quite likely. But it is not me that is using Yahoo!, it is the other
guy.
Ask ChatGPT ?LOL
On Tue, 3/4/2025 1:02 PM, Davey wrote:
I, in the UK, recently sent a message to a friend in Michigan, USA, describing my recent medical event, which was a burst varicose vein
blood blister. Blood everywhere, neighbour came over to help, went
to clinic yesterday to get it seen to and bandaged properly,
follow-up next week.
When he received the message on his Yahoo! e-mail screen, it was
preceded by an AI-generated summary. It was not totally accurate. I
have suggested that he look hard and deep for a setting or switch
somewhere in the Settings to turn it off, pronto. He insists that
there was no suggestion that this was going to happen.
Is this what we have to expect now?
Help.........
Reddit says:
"I turned it off by going to
settings->message preview->then toggle off AI summaries"
at the recipient (Yahoo) end.
Paul
Is this what we have to expect now?
Help.........
You can see the "logic" - "some people get 1000's of messages a day and
can't keep up with them, with our snazzy AI we can highlight the
important ones, and then summarise those to make them quicker to read"
Of course the reality is that they will now either fail to see the
important ones at all since they have been categorised into some smart
folder they would not think of looking in, and when they do find them
they now have to spend even longer reading through the AI summary *and*
the whole original message to work out how the AI got the wrong end of
the stick.
On Tue, 4 Mar 2025 18:08:24 +0000
mm0fmf <none@invalid.com> wrote:
On 04/03/2025 18:02, Davey wrote:
as no suggestion that this was going to happen.
Is this what we have to expect now?
It is if you use shitbag services like Yahoo.
Quite likely. But it is not me that is using Yahoo!, it is the other
guy.
On 04/03/2025 18:02, Davey wrote:
as no suggestion that this was going to happen.
Is this what we have to expect now?
It is if you use shitbag services like Yahoo.
On Tue, 4 Mar 2025 14:18:53 -0500
Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:
On Tue, 3/4/2025 1:02 PM, Davey wrote:
I, in the UK, recently sent a message to a friend in Michigan, USA,
describing my recent medical event, which was a burst varicose vein
blood blister. Blood everywhere, neighbour came over to help, went
to clinic yesterday to get it seen to and bandaged properly,
follow-up next week.
When he received the message on his Yahoo! e-mail screen, it was
preceded by an AI-generated summary. It was not totally accurate. I
have suggested that he look hard and deep for a setting or switch
somewhere in the Settings to turn it off, pronto. He insists that
there was no suggestion that this was going to happen.
Is this what we have to expect now?
Help.........
Reddit says:
"I turned it off by going to
settings->message preview->then toggle off AI summaries"
at the recipient (Yahoo) end.
Paul
And this is his reply:
"Okay, I followed what you found:
Settings > message preview.... and there is NO message preview.
That is exactly the nightmare of any 'site', that offers 'assistance'.
To find what's needed is a stinking nightmare.
So, I called Yahoo.
And guess what?
The prompt says have the credit card ready, for 'assistance'.
Unbelievable.
And, have the driver license ready, too.
None of that. I got hold of an agent, and let him have it.
AI, the 'summary' is an intrusion on privacy. NO site can, and should
assume it can 'summarize. anyone's e-mail messages. He seemed to have
'got' it.
I asked where, to click off this AI summary crap, and he doesn't seem
to know. Just, he says, it's the 'enhanced' version of Yahoo.
I said, show me where, since it's not at all clear and easy to find,
where to go back to the original, BASIIC mail appearance page. I did
that. And, asked, will this eliminate, will that AI summary stuff
disappear. He said it should."
And so it goes on, They "know" what We want, but don't bother to ask us.
We will see what happens. If anything.
On Tue, 3/4/2025 6:12 PM, Davey wrote:
On Tue, 4 Mar 2025 14:18:53 -0500
Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:
On Tue, 3/4/2025 1:02 PM, Davey wrote:
I, in the UK, recently sent a message to a friend in Michigan,
USA, describing my recent medical event, which was a burst
varicose vein blood blister. Blood everywhere, neighbour came
over to help, went to clinic yesterday to get it seen to and
bandaged properly, follow-up next week.
When he received the message on his Yahoo! e-mail screen, it was
preceded by an AI-generated summary. It was not totally accurate.
I have suggested that he look hard and deep for a setting or
switch somewhere in the Settings to turn it off, pronto. He
insists that there was no suggestion that this was going to
happen.
Is this what we have to expect now?
Help.........
Reddit says:
"I turned it off by going to
settings->message preview->then toggle off AI summaries"
at the recipient (Yahoo) end.
Paul
And this is his reply:
"Okay, I followed what you found:
Settings > message preview.... and there is NO message preview.
That is exactly the nightmare of any 'site', that offers
'assistance'. To find what's needed is a stinking nightmare.
So, I called Yahoo.
And guess what?
The prompt says have the credit card ready, for 'assistance'.
Unbelievable.
And, have the driver license ready, too.
None of that. I got hold of an agent, and let him have it.
AI, the 'summary' is an intrusion on privacy. NO site can, and
should assume it can 'summarize. anyone's e-mail messages. He
seemed to have 'got' it.
I asked where, to click off this AI summary crap, and he doesn't
seem to know. Just, he says, it's the 'enhanced' version of Yahoo.
I said, show me where, since it's not at all clear and easy to find,
where to go back to the original, BASIIC mail appearance page. I did
that. And, asked, will this eliminate, will that AI summary stuff disappear. He said it should."
And so it goes on, They "know" what We want, but don't bother to
ask us. We will see what happens. If anything.
There seem to be applications you can run for the free (Ad Supported)
Yahoo or the Yahoo Plus (paid, monthly) version. As well, there are
web browser versions of the two as well. Presumably, when you log
into the web page, it uses your account version to create the web
page for that version.
https://www.reddit.com/r/yahoo/comments/1h47ogx/yahoo_mail_ai_summary/
"yahoo mail
>> top right corner click on the circle with your profile
(profile picture or first initial of your first name)
>> tab with a few options should pop up, click account overview
>> now it directs you to a new page, click privacy controls at
>> the top of the screen
>> now click Automated Email Analysis
>> now it gives you 3 options that you can toggle on or off,
toggle OFF the "Use information from your emails to
enable Smart Features so you can get the most out of your
Yahoo experience: "
That could mean, roughly four different "experiences" times the rolling-release model as they fumble with the controls on a
daily basis.
Simple, right ? Nothing a four-dimensional cartographer cannot handle.
Paul
| Sysop: | Keyop |
|---|---|
| Location: | Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, UK |
| Users: | 546 |
| Nodes: | 16 (2 / 14) |
| Uptime: | 17:56:45 |
| Calls: | 10,389 |
| Files: | 14,061 |
| Messages: | 6,416,956 |