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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Truman Smith
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Thank for adding this to settings on the App, but the fact it's not an option on a desktop is mind-boggling. How can you think everyone would want this feature? #outoftouchwiththemarket
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We are reading all these pieces of feedback and we totally understand you want to disable this feature. This can be done in the Yahoo Mail app, but we haven't implemented it to Desktop settings. We have share with our team! Thank you for your patience!
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Jake Rich
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Mostly the summaries are very unhelpful and force me to scroll down every time to read the actually email. Why is there not an option to turn them off? You are actively making it harder for me to use email
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Lisa Murphy
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I hate the AI summary. Make it go away.
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Lee Ann Dalton
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Please turn this feature off or at least give me the option to turn it off in settings. I can read my email - the summary is just distracting.
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Suzyn Jackson Gonzalez
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TURN IT OFF. It's creepy as ****. I am capable of reading my own **** email. I don't want a constant reminder that you're reading it too.
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tsia-biau Shirh
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I do NOT need al these Hi-Tech's; please recover my Previous Way of the E-mail's! PLEASE!!!
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Joy Weese Moll
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I agree with the other comments. Also, given recent news about how much electricity it takes to perform AI, this 'feature' is a ridiculous waste of resources for those of us who don't want it.
Given both the waste of resources and the icky invasion of privacy, the default should be 'no AI summary' and users should have to opt in.
This is annoying enough to me that it may be the thing that sends me back to the old Yahoo email.
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Amy Troutman
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These AI summaries are a stupid waste of space - redundant and useless. I am perfectly capable of reading my own email. I want them turned off immediately. And I do not need Yahoo scanning all my emails and taking my personal correspondence - which should be private - to train your AI engine.
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Josh Barber
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Any AI feature should have an opt in. My private emails being read by your AI to enhance your algorithm do not help me. These summaries are often inaccurate and missing details. I am an adult who can read and do not need AI help. Please turn this feature off or at least give me the option!!
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Glenn Akhavein
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How do I stop Yahoo from reading my emails? I do not want your AI generating info about my emails. Send them to me without reading them.
Whomever is running the programming at Yahoo is an overreaching, arrogant, idiot. "I'm from Yahoo, I'm here to help you".
You do not know what is a Priority to Me so deciding to make Priority the default is stupid, Consider that idea a total failure.
You do not know what parts of an email are important to me so stop having your AI read my emails and try to tell me what matters as it is not at all possible without background info on the email, issues, people involved, etc. So doing that without my consent is another total fail.
You want to help people, go ahead and develop your ideas and then let your users decide if they want to implement them.
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Heidi Isbister
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It's a completely useless feature. I'm really embarrassed of them for forcing it into our faces like this. Why do I have to scroll past a summary to read my emails? James made a good point too. Don't use my private emails to feed your AI machine! Take it out completely.
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Lori E Carson
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I AM GOING TO READ THE EMAIL why would I need a summary of it?!?!?!?!
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James Smith
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The AI summary almost just had me calling my bank about an incorrect transaction amount that it hallucinated. Why is this presented as the first thing we see when we open the email, it's misleading. And why are you feeding our email to an AI in the first place? This seems like a major security risk!
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Camille Gh
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I don't find the summaries helpful. I prefer to read my email and understand what they're fully about. And for the ones that are short and brief it's just a waste of space and effort to see what's already been said, now twice.
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Mike Padilla
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I find the summaries very helpful. When I don't need them I can quickly look past them, just like I look past header information. I would rather developers spend time providing more features rather than removing something I can just look past.
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Hi Daniel, please check other forums before adding a duplicate. We'd really appreciate it. You can certainly add to it or up vote. There is already a thread on AI Summaries. Thanks!
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Kyle S Moyer
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I saw an option for it on the phone app but can't turn it off for the browser. I hate those AI summaries with a passion
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erin alter
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i despise this feature. i do NOT want you to try and tell me what the person who wrote to me personally said. i don't care about your interpretation yahoo. i care about the person who wrote to me, who i know. to have your summary at the top is incredibly presumptuous. at the very least, make this "feature" optional.
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Daniel Wharton
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The AI summary is a terrible idea especially making it involuntary! I was trying to figure out why one of my important customers was threatening to end our partnership AND THEY WEREN'T YOUR MORONIC AI SUMMARY misinterpreted the email. You should not be giving people a FALSE understanding of important business emails because its not even clear that the AI summary is an AI summary. I had to put the pieces together to even realize what was going on!