I know I should ditch gmail and I’m working on it.
Only if you are a llm pretending to be an A.I.
Yes. Email has always been one of the more vulnerable parts of the computer ecosystem, because any stranger can use it to send a (malicious) file into your computer or server for processing.
Simpler email is safer. Every new feature has bugs. Some bugs are vulnerabilities.
Gmail adding learning models is creating a new risk for you.
How large that risk is, has yet to be discovered.
My armchair opinion is that the new risk is minimal, compared to the rest of the risks of using email. But time will tell.
I’m the meantime, if I still uses Gmail, I would turn the LLM features off and let someone else discover how risky it is.
I also agree that it’s time for rational people to leave Gmail, if they can. But my reasons are privacy reasons, rather than security reasons.
I work in ICT. Leaving Gmail is much easier said than done. It has the best spam filtering bar none and integrates with a whole host of other services that I use daily, like the mobile phone I’m writing this on for example, the one that integrates my calendar, tasks, contacts, photos, websites, YouTube channel, spreadsheets and, oh yeah … that other thing … Gmail.
So, if wishing made it so.
What I’d like is a Google Workspace tier that is entirely without AI.
I’ve left gmail and had no real challenges with spam filtering or anything else so far. I lost integration between calendar photos drive etc, which has removed some convenience, but that was also kind of the point.
I guess technically, but the LLM doesn’t have access to anything, so the only real consequence would be an inaccurate summary
