It appears that turning off the new “Smart Features” in #GMail that “provide smart features and personalize your experience” also turns off a decades-old feature that categorizes spam away from your Inbox.
Smart Features uses Gemini #AI to enable LLM-assisted email composition and summary, and to suggest stuff from your calendars and promotional items.
In other words, disabling GMail’s AI features requires you to give up a categorization feature that you’ve had for decades, long before “AI” as we know it today was even a thing.
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MisterArix
in reply to Dave Rahardja • • •I noticed that more Gmail spam is getting through, but most are still being flagged. I think their spam classification is only partially driven by Gemini #AI
If they were concerned about spam, they would allow granular application of Smart Features, but we're the product.
#enshittification