I got an urgent letter from my credit union today. In order to best process it, I tried to print it out. I got just two lines instead of the entire message.
I looked at the onscreen message, and seeing the AI on top, I decided it was the fault of AI. (That was incorrect.) I hate those redundant AI summaries as a general rule anyway, they waste space and I'd like to turn them off, but I haven't gotten around to it yet.
So I gave the AI Summary a Thumbs Down.
A dialog came up for the AI, and I entered nothing in the explanation box, I just pressed Submit.
The message went away and I was back at my inbox where the original message had disappeared. I checked my Trash folder, and it wasn't there either.
Fortunately, I had replied to the message, so I still had a copy in my Sent folder. I tried printing that out, and once again I got just two lines. It was at that point I realized that the original problem, the two line printout, was because the message was really a link or something (which still doesn't explain why it didn't print out).
From the sent message, I then cut out the text that I needed, copied that to a file in Emacs, and printed that file out. So finally I got the text I needed.
But now, the Sent message disappeared from my Sent folder.
None of the messages show up in my Trash or in a Search either.
It seems like if you complain about Yahoo AI, it destroys all evidence of that by deleting the original message and your reply to it.
Diabolical. I never asked for AI and hate it too. And I thought I had already turned off message summaries.
I asked Google again how to turn off message summaries. Google AI said:
To disable email summaries in Yahoo Mail, open your settings by clicking the gear icon or More Options icon, navigate to Viewing email, and then toggle the Dynamic message (or Message summaries) setting to off
But in the Viewing tab, I already had the Dynamic Message feature turned off, and there is no Message Summaries. It turned out, that is in a different settings tab, the one called Appearances.
My advice would be: unplug all those AI datacenters right now. It seems like we've landed on Forbidden Planet already. One AI covering it's tracks and the other misdirecting for it.
Will anyone read this?
