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  • Google Magic Compose will write your mail

    From Retrograde@21:1/5 to All on Sat May 27 14:36:29 2023
    From the «if you send it previous messages» department:
    Feed: The Verge - All Posts
    Title: Google’s Magic Compose beta is here — but it sends your messages to Google
    Author: Emma Roth
    Date: Fri, 26 May 2023 18:17:45 -0400
    Link: https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/26/23739224/google-messages-magic-compose-beta-ai

    [image 1] Image: Google

    Google has finally started to roll out the beta of Magic Compose, its new Messages feature that uses AI[2] to help you write text messages. However, as pointed out by Android Police[3], the feature comes with a pretty big caveat: it
    will send up to “20 previous messages” to Google’s servers to generate suggestions — even if you’re using RCS with end-to-end encryption (E2EE).

    Google outlines these conditions on its Magic Compose support page[4], noting that it will send these messages, along with any included emoji, reactions, and URLs, to its servers to help its AI craft an appropriate response. The company adds that it won’t send any messages with attachments, voice messages, and images but notes “image captions and voice transcriptions may be...

    Continue reading…[5]

    Links:
    [1]: https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/h6Ws_IMjcrCW6r6uOEI6J1eav-g=/522x283:2374x1518/1310x873/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/72317072/google_magic_compose_1.0.png (image)
    [2]: https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/10/23718088/google-android-14-ai-wallpaper-messages-magic-compose-io (link)
    [3]: https://www.androidpolice.com/magic-compose-google-messages-beta-supercharge-conversations/ (link)
    [4]: https://support.google.com/messages/answer/13632636 (link)
    [5]: https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/26/23739224/google-messages-magic-compose-beta-ai (link)



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  • From Arnold Knight@21:1/5 to All on Sun May 28 02:24:37 2023
    Google has finally started to roll out the beta of Magic Compose, its
    new Messages feature that uses AI[2] to help you write text messages.

    These are RCS/SMS/MMS messages. Not meant to be lengthy. Just meant to
    convey the essential information; punctuation and capitalization
    optional.

    If someone needs to invoke some back-end Rube Goldberg AI nonsense to
    respond to my text message… I might actually take personal offense.

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  • From Dan Espen@21:1/5 to Arnold Knight on Sun May 28 09:42:27 2023
    Arnold Knight <arnold@nospam.invalid> writes:

    Google has finally started to roll out the beta of Magic Compose, its
    new Messages feature that uses AI[2] to help you write text messages.

    These are RCS/SMS/MMS messages. Not meant to be lengthy. Just meant to
    convey the essential information; punctuation and capitalization
    optional.

    If someone needs to invoke some back-end Rube Goldberg AI nonsense to
    respond to my text message… I might actually take personal offense.

    Gmail has a similar feature. Often the suggested response is exactly
    what I had in mind. I then have to figure out some other response.

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    Dan Espen

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  • From Sylvia Else@21:1/5 to Retrograde on Fri Jun 30 16:23:01 2023
    On 28-May-23 12:36 am, Retrograde wrote:
    From the «if you send it previous messages» department:
    Feed: The Verge - All Posts
    Title: Google’s Magic Compose beta is here — but it sends your messages to
    Google
    Author: Emma Roth
    Date: Fri, 26 May 2023 18:17:45 -0400
    Link: https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/26/23739224/google-messages-magic-compose-beta-ai

    [image 1] Image: Google

    Google has finally started to roll out the beta of Magic Compose, its new Messages feature that uses AI[2] to help you write text messages. However, as pointed out by Android Police[3], the feature comes with a pretty big caveat: it
    will send up to “20 previous messages” to Google’s servers to generate suggestions — even if you’re using RCS with end-to-end encryption (E2EE).

    Google outlines these conditions on its Magic Compose support page[4], noting that it will send these messages, along with any included emoji, reactions, and
    URLs, to its servers to help its AI craft an appropriate response. The company
    adds that it won’t send any messages with attachments, voice messages, and images but notes “image captions and voice transcriptions may be...

    Continue reading…[5]

    Links:
    [1]: https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/h6Ws_IMjcrCW6r6uOEI6J1eav-g=/522x283:2374x1518/1310x873/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/72317072/google_magic_compose_1.0.png (image)
    [2]: https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/10/23718088/google-android-14-ai-wallpaper-messages-magic-compose-io (link)
    [3]: https://www.androidpolice.com/magic-compose-google-messages-beta-supercharge-conversations/ (link)
    [4]: https://support.google.com/messages/answer/13632636 (link)
    [5]: https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/26/23739224/google-messages-magic-compose-beta-ai (link)




    All we need now is another AI to read the mail, and we can cut humans
    out of the loop completely.

    Sylvia.

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  • From John@21:1/5 to Sylvia Else on Fri Jun 30 15:09:50 2023
    Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> writes:
    All we need now is another AI to read the mail, and we can cut humans
    out of the loop completely.

    Sylvia.

    I've seen semi-serious joking that emails will look like this in the
    future:

    1. Human sender writes very terse summary of what they want to say
    2. LLM rewrites it into 5 paragraphs of press release nonsense & sends
    3. Recipient feeds email into their own LLM and asks it to summarize
    4. Recipient reads terse summary

    john

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  • From Bob Henson@21:1/5 to John on Fri Jun 30 18:34:15 2023
    John wrote:

    Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> writes:
    All we need now is another AI to read the mail, and we can cut humans
    out of the loop completely.

    Sylvia.

    I've seen semi-serious joking that emails will look like this in the
    future:

    1. Human sender writes very terse summary of what they want to say
    2. LLM rewrites it into 5 paragraphs of press release nonsense & sends
    3. Recipient feeds email into their own LLM and asks it to summarize
    4. Recipient reads terse summary

    john

    You can bet the Chinese Whispers game will apply.


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    Bob
    Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England

    Monday is a terrible way to spend 1/7th of your life.

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  • From Mike Spencer@21:1/5 to Bob Henson on Sat Jul 1 00:13:37 2023
    Bob Henson <bob.henson@outlook.com> writes:

    John wrote:

    1. Human sender writes very terse summary of what they want to say
    2. LLM rewrites it into 5 paragraphs of press release nonsense & sends
    3. Recipient feeds email into their own LLM and asks it to summarize
    4. Recipient reads terse summary

    You can bet the Chinese Whispers game will apply.

    Yes, #4. will be a very different "terse summary" from #1.

    We already have this effect in which sender writes a carefully
    constructed message, proof-reads it, spell checks, re-reads and edits
    to tune the tone & emotional impact, use or eschew buzzwords & trigger
    words.

    The recipient reads the first 2 lines and acts/replies accordingly.

    No AI needed.

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    Mike Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada

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