Invasive AI

Beth Gallagher

Beth Gallagher

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I am not a fan of AI, and I'm getting really tired of how invasive it is becoming. I opened my email today (GMAIL) and was greeted by an AI Summary of an email from a friend. SERIOUSLY???? I don't know why this absolutely enrages me. I had to look up how to turn that shit off. (And yes, I apologize but it is indeed shit.) 🤬 :mad::poop:
 
Beth Gallagher said:
I am not a fan of AI, and I'm getting really tired of how invasive it is becoming. I opened my email today (GMAIL) and was greeted by an AI Summary of an email from a friend. SERIOUSLY???? I don't know why this absolutely enrages me. I had to look up how to turn that shit off. (And yes, I apologize but it is indeed shit.) 🤬 :mad::poop:
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I agree totally , it's like the science fiction movies Solvent Green and Logan's Run coming true and just as big a nightmare.
 
Marie Mallory said:
Does it help to block AI if you have VPN protection?
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No. In this instance, it's still your email account, regardless of where you may be accessing it.

Yahoo mail does the same thing. Rolling it back to prior versions has been a Sometimes Works/Sometimes Doesn't thing. And I'm not sure that turning off the User Summary means that it's not being harvested.
 
Beth Gallagher said:
Oh, don't get me started on the fake videos.
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I know the feeling. There is so much of it on YouTube now, it's making it hard to find real news.

Beth Gallagher said:
But somehow invading my personal email just feels so creepy. Not to mention that I don't need my friend's comments "summarized".
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Can you make Message Filters in your email program? They come in so handy for filtering out the BS.
 
This AI stuff is walking a fine line between potentially useful and annoyingly intrusive.

One of my favorite TV series ever is 2015's "The Expanse." It is set in the future, perhaps 200 years from now. Things are still a lot more "Apollo Program" than "Star Trek" with a lot of grounded technology and politics.

For people, and especially their children, living in space meant an awful lot of AI use to help guide and moderate actions, for example keeping kids from killing everyone opening a wrong door. So AI is basically everywhere.

However job displacement by AI has had nasty consequences there for generations already. So for the most part it stays in the backgroun, mostly only responding when directly asked for something, and by default it NEVER speaks with a synthetic human voice unless soebody turns that on - which is very rare. In places people express outright disgust for AI, saying things to like "Ask the ship. It seems to know everything anyway!"
 
AI can be useful, but not when we allow it to replace our brains or when it's used to deceive. In my web directory job, I use AI to review websites we list because it can do in a split second what it would take me a few minutes, and sometimes longer, to do, but I don't let AI write the description for me, as my employer is paying me to do that, and because good category and site descriptions are what determines the value of web directory pages, and search engines are capable of diffrentiating AI content from that written by human beings. A reasonable use of AI would be to gather information, but we should still interpret that information and question any part that doesn't make sense, because AI does make stuff up from time to time. The AI thought process seems to be that it will do whatever it's told to do even if it has to lie.
 
John Brunner said:
No. In this instance, it's still your email account, regardless of where you may be accessing it.

Yahoo mail does the same thing. Rolling it back to prior versions has been a Sometimes Works/Sometimes Doesn't thing. And I'm not sure that turning off the User Summary means that it's not being harvested.
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Thank you John for the info.
 
Beth Gallagher said:
Check out this BBC (lol) article about Google Gemini AI being "woke." The irony of BBC reporting has not escaped me. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-68412620
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That's an odd thing for the BBC to call out. I would think they'd want AI to be their next PM.

I wish I had grabbed some of the responses a guy on another forum got when he asked AI (I forget which one) to list positive attributes about various demographics. (Hint: You and I suck, and our list is thin and short.)

Have you played with AI at all? I've not. I think Musk has one to compete with Wiki. I think I read that his activity has already outpaced Wiki's...although that could just be the novelty of newness.
 
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