I Do Not Need an Email Summary
I write a message which I intend to send to someone.
I send this message via email.
Of course, I know what the message states, because I wrote it.
The person to whom I have sent the message knows how to read and is capable of understanding the particular subject.
The recipient receives my email and sends a reply email to my email.
Her reply, which I read, further indicates to me that, not only did she receive my email, but that she, also, understood what I was saying.
After this email exchange, an uninvited third party jumps into the conversation and summarizes what we just wrote to each other.
The third party is an artificial intelligence program called Gemini which Google does not offer, but rather, forces on the users of gmail.
When I send an email to someone who resides in China, I fully expect for a third party from the government to look at my emails because that is what authoritarian governments do.
However, in the United States of America, where freedom and privacy used to carry some importance, I do not expect a third party entity to invade my conversations.
Freedom and privacy aside, the service is not one that I want nor one in which I find any value.
If I, or the person with whom I am conversing, through email, state something in an email, it is because it adds value to our conversation. It is not something that we wanted shortened by a summary.
I thought that artificial intelligence was supposed to be busy taking all of our jobs away, not interfering in our private conversations.
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