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[–] 6 points 46 minutes ago

Why use AI to read emails? My rules are that if in Inbox and unread for a week, move to Purgatory. If in Purgatory for more than a month, delete.

If you want me to read an email, you better text me that you emailed me. Receipts, updates, and all that jazz already have filters and rules.

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  • [–] [S] 15 points 1 hour ago

    We spent decades teaching people not to click suspicious links, then handed our inboxes and payment permissions to a chatbot that treats »ignore previous instructions« as a promotion to management. The phishing email no longer needs to fool you: It just needs to fool your very expensive autocomplete intern.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 hour ago (3 children)

    Yeah no shit, 20 years of gmails ‘s complete inability to determine spam from real email is testament to this

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  • [–] 2 points 42 minutes ago (2 children)

    It turns out that making a machine that is capable of determining the difference between actual legitimate messages and messages pretending to be legitimate is a really difficult problem to solve

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