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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Samantha Wood
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These summaries are so freaking obnoxious. If I want them I'll turn them on but 99.9% of the time, I do not want them, I know how to read an email.
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Lynn Dodsworth
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I have yet to see a correct AI summary. I pay for Yahoo Mail Plus -- Let me turn it off!!! Why are your forcing us to be your guinea pigs for this? I'd like to knnow how many POSITIVE comments you've received on this.
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Teresa Emory
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Welcome to stupid "AI", my cat is smarter than the so-called "AI" I see!!! I would like to see the ability to turn off any and all AI, it's as useful as a screen door on a submarine!!!
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Sean Mahoney
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I just want to read my email, not constantly realize I am reading some ridiculous summary of it. What moron created this tripe?
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Lori Lawson
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The AI summaries contain hyperlinks to my bank and credit card. How is this a good idea? Every time I get an AI summary, I'm giving it the thumbs down and writing feedback. Why keep something NO ONE wants? Yahoo mail is typically used by older people who have had this address for a long time with many of us willing to pay for the service. Stop trying to make it something the Gen Z will use. They won't. Know your base and keep us happy or you'll lose money.
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Jennifer Isaac
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This feature is terrible. Let me turn it off.
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JD DAEHLIN
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STOP READING MY EMAILS, AND STOP MAKING SUGGESTIONS ON WHAT PEOPLE WRITE TO ME...INVASION OF PRIVACY..I HAVE THE ILLEGAL MESSAGE YOU LEFT ABOUT SOMEONE SENDING ME PRIVATE EMAIL....YOU PEOPLE ARE BIASED IN YOUR POLITICAL MEDIA PROPAGANDA ....NOW YOUR COMMENTING ON MY PERSONAL EMAILS SENT TO ME......
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Bill Rayburn
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I stayed on Classic Yahoo email so I would not see these useless AI summaries. Now that Classic Yahoo email has been hobbled by removing shortcut keys, I am forced to use the New Yahoo Mail. The imperfect and redundant AI summaries immediately train me to ignore them, because I actually want to read email when the email is important. Do the people working on Yahoo Mail not use email themselves?
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Mitchell Bonds
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This "feature" feels intrusive and redundant, seldom adds anything beneficial, and doubles the scroll length of any important email, most of which are the same length as, or shorter than, the summary. I neither need nor want this, and there isn't a way to turn it off. Please adjust this so that people who find it as obnoxious as I do can disable it.
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christopher rodriguez
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This AI Preview is a pain **********!!! it is so unneeded and aggravates me to the point of leaving yahoo all together!
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Fernanda B
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Please let me get rid of all this AI intrusion, I'm perfectly capable of understanding what my messages are about
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Shawn Barrett
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This needs to be a priority change. The summaries are not helpful and in many cases are completely useless!
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Wayne Feagley
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To force this BS AI summary at the top and not allow us to turn it off is infuriating. Why in the world would you think this is a good idea? Its pathetic that you think you can force this on your users and that they'd all be okay with it. Whoever made that decision should be fired.
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Kathy Battershell
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I don't know where to put this one. I'm getting messages replies from FB and it's annoying to see all the messages in the body of the email.
I should be just getting the one person's response and not everyone.
How do I fix? I don't have a smartphone.
If this can't be fix, let us have classic back. Please
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Carrie Bergherm
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Turn off the AI Summaries. I hate them. They are a waste of my time! First, I start reading them, thinking I'm reading the actual email that was sent, and then when I realize it's a stupid AI summary, then I have to waste more time scrolling down to see the actualy email that was sent to me. It is not helpful, and I hate it! Give us a way to turn it off! Better yet, give us Classic Yahoo back. Otherwise, I'm leaving to find another server, which I really hate to do since I've been with Yahoo since 1999. I've been mostly happy with Yahoo, but this new forced changed is awful and enough to make me go through all my accounts that I use my Yahoo email with and changing to another email. I hate the useless AI summaries, and I hate the new look. Nothing is useful about any of it!
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Michael A. Russo
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Fact: AI summaries are good for Amazon product reviews, not people's personal emails.
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Joy Weese Moll
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The AI summaries are horrible. They should be opt-in. AI uses way too much energy for it to be forced on anyone. Yahoo is wasting our natural resources to give us something we don't even want. Stop it.
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Dug C
commented
If you are going to create these completely useless AI summaries how about if you make them hard to find like you did with the spam/trash folders?
These AI summaries are a terrible idea. I want to read the email as the sender intended. I'm certainly not going to trust a computer generated summary when the real thing is right there. But I have to waste time (and get angry) every time I have to scroll past the unwanted AI summary. -
Howard Richoux
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To continue the complaints.
6. The whole message display format is flawed. The summary takes up most of the first screen, but the elements it extracts to summarize are semi-random. For example, on a name/address in the email, it decides to summarize this as a name only.
7. The summary is then followed by what purports to be the actual message, but it omits the actual sender email address, which is a key to detecting spam.
8. For some reason, the email body has all sorts of blank lines added, making it much less readable than it used to be.
9. The fundamental assumption YM should make is that the email sender knew what he was doing, and that the message should be displayed as sent. If the reader wants a summary, he can ask for one.
10. With my conspiracy hat on, I expect that the "summaries" are some form of data mining that will profit Yahoo is some way. If so, whoever is buying that information is being cheated. -
Howard Richoux
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My "dynamic messaging" has been turned off the whole time, and I still see the stupid summaries. They are wrong in so many ways, it is hard to imagine who thought they were a good idea.
1. The "summary" takes up most of the screen, so I have to scroll down every message to find out what it really says.
2. For some totally unknown reason, it summarizes about half of the emails. For things like eBay sales notifications, it summarizes some, and not others.
3. In some cases, it just makes stuff up that is found nowhere in the message.
4. I am assuming this is training some AI somewhere, but there is no possible feedback mechanism to improve it. If we are going to be stuck with this, we, at least, need to be able to flag terrible summaries.
5. Personally, I am setting a date of April 2. If I can't turn this off by then, I will move to some other email client. If that doesn't work, I'm switching to GMail and losing 20 years of saved emails and YM loses $5/month. This is a deal-breaker.