Wow!
I just looked up how to disable AI intrusion and I didn't understand just about all of that.
All kinds of steps that made me even more confused.

I think that was the idea: make it so difficult that it takes a compter guru to do it!

I have not had that occur. Wonder why it was doing that.

I did just send out an email to someone, but before I sent it I asked ChatTPG to revise it and make it less confrontational and smoother ......... although the message wasn't not really confrontational. It was a case of someone sending me an email telling me all the things they were doing to one of my old golf courses that I had designed years ago. Since they had already done the work, I am not sure why they were telling me, as it was too late for my input. Some of the things I wouldn't have done and wanted to in a nice way tell them that. Email was excellent!

I had what I believe to be AI make an enhanced version of my review of snow pants I bought for my kid. I thought my review was sufficient, then I got an email with the enhanced review indicating my review was altered, and giving me the choice to return it to my original review. Kinda irked me, and certainly didn't want to spend any more time on the matter, and let them use the enhanced review. But I'll never review a product for them again, that is, if I ever use that company again.

If a postal worker were to open someone's letter, read it, and summarized it, they would go to jail. But I'm assuming that free email user agreements say that they will do whatever they want with our emails. Or they'll make it difficult to opt out, like Steve has experienced.

So now we will have AIs emailing each other and replying, no humans involved.

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Originally posted by banjo bill-e

So now we will have AIs emailing each other and replying, no humans involved.

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Some how some person is going to held accountable for something they did not type..

Just a guess...

I won't use my email friend's name here,but I copied down what AI Overview box said.This was superimposed into my conversation with my friend after I said to him I had misplaced his stories.

"Joe" (not his real name) sent you multiple pieces of his retirement writings containing humorous sketches and regional stories including dialect humor a tale of two banjos and four other stories,"Joe" on 2026-08-09 @6:55 pm EDT recalling the (Thomaston" prison gift shop on Rte 1.
By Gemini,there may be mistakes"

This was posted into my email conversation with"Joe".

I work for a very large international IT solutions provider. We have been rolled out globally with corporate AI which means it has access to certain internal systems so it can use our own doccumentation as references rather than just what joe said on the internet. It is very useful in preparing bid proposals etc or comparing revisions of documents etc. I've also got it to automatically do a couple of labourious admin tasks that I hated doing (but had to do) which actually gives me half a day per week back so I can be more productive.

However, I do not like its interference with emails, it puts those prompts right at the spot where you accidently click them and it sums up/amends/re-writes automatically, almost by default rather than you having to make two clicks to request it to do so.

What I really hate, is a lot of my project managers have cottoned on to the 'write a reply for me' prompt. Our email correspondence is full of mails that sound like they are from a robot who has swallowed both a dictionary and thesaurus. It is mostly obvious that they haven't written it themselves, which then begs the question did they read it, and also, to our clients, why the hell are e paying for this guys time when he/she isn't putting the effort in.