Add an option to turn off AI summaries.
It might be useful for people with robust business-style accounts, but most of my messages are already short, or they're notifications. It makes the "summaries" redundant and obnoxious.
Issa Mar
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Alex Ross
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Yahoo mail was so simple. It is now the opposite. Please offer a "disable AI summary." Make the option at the forefront of the UI to toggle it on and off. Some people may like it eventually. It is now just a productivity reducer.
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Florian Mika
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For me, use of AI summaries is useless, just annoying.
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Sharon Stern
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The AI-generated recaps and subject lines are not helpful, and often take more time to parse and validate than just reading the email. And they're environmentally wasteful on top.
I won't continue using the service if I can't turn off AI-generated recaps and subject lines -- even though I have literally decades of use of this email address. I didn't ask for it and don't want it.
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Grace Robles
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Generative AI is inherently wasteful in terms of energy/the environment and forcing your users to participate in it automatically is a practice that I will be boycotting. I was able to switch back to "Basic Yahoo Mail" (which also seems less intuitive than the Yahoo mail that existed before today's horrid update), and this does not appear include AI. That said, gen AI features should NOT be the default (personally, I don't think Yahoo or any mail service should have gen AI at all). If Yahoo forces AI upon it's users I will be sure to find another e-mail service.
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Sheri Venema
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I can read an email. I don't need an AI summary. It's just in the way when I want to get to the actual email. I agree: please create an option for turning off the AI summaries.
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HI Andrew, ah you are referring to AI Summaries in our emails. We will merge your feedback in the right thread. Yes, we have this Setting in our app where you can disable Summaries, but we haven't brought it to Desktop yet. We will share your feedback with the team. Thanks!
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Andrew Conley
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The instructions do not work to remove dynamic messages. I am using the new KB article and following instructions, but that is still coming up. I DO NOT WANT YAHOO TO READ MY EMAILS FOR ME.
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Kathy Manchip
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I don't want any AI summaries, I need an opt out option, they are a waste of time and space and are unnecessary and highly annoying
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Aliya Simms
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Yesss I hate these. I want to read what the person sent. Its not like I can reasonably respond to whatever AI said, I'll have to read the email anyway. The AI overview doesnt even pull out the most important parts, because surprise surprise, IT DOESNT KNOW WHATS IMPORTANT AND RELEVANT TO ME SPECIFICALLY
Its a worthless addition that makes our lives harder, not easier
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Gospodin Gyurov
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Please stop wasting electricity for generating trash over the most important part of my screen! I want to read my emails, not to see AI exercises there.
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Gary Schilling
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The AI Summaries are inane, obnoxious and unnecessary. They usurp the ability to quickly get to the REAL message. Do you really think we're THAT stupid???
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Lynn Dodsworth
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Redundant, obnoxious and CREEPY. Not to mention that it strips the enjoyment out of reading well-written prose.
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Lynn Dodsworth
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The summaries are incorrect, creepy and disconcerting, and reading them wastes more time than than they will ever hope to save. You need a ranking higher than critical for things like this that will truly cause me to switch to another email app.
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Jennifer Boyce
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Very confusing - and often times INCORRECT at summarizing an email.
REMOVE the summary and let me READ my emails!!!
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Kathleen Peoples
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I absolutely HATE the summary feature. I am enraged that email that I write and send is "summarized" and sent to my recipients without my even seeing it first! I refuse to have my messages added to , subtracted from, or interpreted before it goes to recipients. This is a breach of privacy and should be legally actionable. If someone stood by the mailbox, opened your letters and read them, and added their summary of the content, resealed it and sent it out without your knowledge, would you stand for it? I am not standing for this! And it is nauseating to receive an email that has been "summarized for me." I just got a bill and the Yahoo feature "summarized" that this company wanted me to pay a bill. Useless, a waste of space, and insulting. I have been with Yahoo for many years, but will have to switch if this continues. Just STOP it!!
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Bud Seemann
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The AI summary adds no value and instead adds a block of text you have to scroll past to get to the actual email.
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Paul Clark
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A completely worthless feature and it's insane you can't turn it off. I'm this close to jumping ship to gmail...
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Cindy Brunner
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These summaries are really annoying. The column provided for previews of my messages is already too narrow to display the entire width of the lines or images. With a huge amount of space being taken up by the AI-generated summary, most of my message preview is off the screen and I have to scroll to find it. Please stop with the summaries, or at least allow users to opt out of them. (Opting in would be even better -- omit them by default.)
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Chelsea Hunt
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The summaries are so long, I have to scroll down just to read the actual email that was sent :(
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Ray Souza
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This "feature" is totally annoying and useless.
I'm capable of reading my own email, I don't need AI to do it for me.