Continue, or "try it now" a popup from Gmail now asks, offering to compose your next message with Gemini.

@briankrebs
Because writing an email is such a hard thing that we have always struggled with...

@multisn8

I did! when seeing this screenshot, my first thought was: huh, I wonder how confidential this really is?? I was confident about my initial read.

Also, does this mean that some (many? most??) emails I receive from gmail accounts will be written by AI? I'm sorry, but I do not spend my time reading AI-generated mail. Boycott in both directions (sending and receiving from gmail).

@briankrebs

@briankrebs @rootwyrm the correct process flow is x -> options -> takeout -> download my data -> options -> account -> delete my account.

Is it just me, or does "draft emails confidently" seem like too awkward a phrase to inspire much confidence?

@briankrebs I just disabled the smart features entirely. No, smart folder organization isn't a thing I want, it is why I disabled it in the first place. I'm sure Google is using my messages to train their models anyway, but I don't want to get bothered by all this fuzz.

@briankrebs

That's weird #AI marketing from #gmail.

As "a random guy on the internet" I have all the confidence I need to type an email...

@briankrebs yep, there is absolutely no way to turn it off now, and no way to keep it from hoovering up your inbox for training. "X" is just "force it on me every time."

Seriously.
People need to get the fuck off Gmail.
It's so damn bad that I am giving serious consideration to starting an email hosting business. And I know better than just about everyone what that involves.

@briankrebs And, while we are here talking about email, a coworker suggested that I use Outlook. Which alternative exists which is not backed by Mozilla and supports Windows and HTML mail? If there isn't one, I guess I will have to use Thunderbird.

@paul @kahomono @briankrebs

yup - I turned all that crap off as soon as I found out I could do so and **then** when I started getting those screen nags I went back and rechecked my settings: all the smart still set to off.

@MsMerope @paul @kahomono just checked and yep that's all turned off in my profile as well.

@dianea @briankrebs

bring back Eudora!!!

@briankrebs You get the same type nag notification, with the elusive and unclear button naming and choices, for other Google products, like Photos and Home, when they add Gemini features. @MsMerope @kahomono

@briankrebs I recently got a business email using a term that is a notorious red flag lawsuit bait. I emailed the sender to politely point it out. They were horrified and admitted AI re-wrote it when they asked AI to make it 'more approachable, nicer.' They forgot to add "and 100% compliant with all laws and regulations."

@dianea @briankrebs Text only is the way. I was actually talking about the benefits of reading text only email with a friend whose company wanted better formatting in their html based emails. Yeah. Fuck that, text lines up perfectly and doesn’t need anything fancy. Simple does not mean deprecated or useless.

@briankrebs no the X must be a "ask me again tomorrow "

Continue mean enable it but do not make a demo,

Try it now is enable it and make a demo

@briankrebs I like the humaning part, where my brain has to do things. So GFY, Gemini.

@lexinova @briankrebs
All that little X means is "Hide this dialog"!

It has no bearing on the contents of that dialog.

@HereToChewGum @briankrebs in my case it was a sarcasm, to say their : Maybe / Yes / Yes is a dark pattern

@briankrebs

at least they're honest that it composes "confidently", not "correctly"...

@lexinova @briankrebs

You could be inadvertently right tho. It can mean any of those depending in the case.

If I click on a result from a search engine and I get confronted by a similarly confusing dialog I never know which opton to take.

So recently I have been choosing to just close the tab...

It would be nice to have a R-click menu option to block that domain from the results of future searches.Is there an add-on for that?