Rod HiltonMay 10, 2023

#GoogleIO revealed the two weirdest features as a pair.

1. Give a short summary and Google will draft an e-mail for you based on it. You can even click "elaborate" and it will make the e-mail longer.

2. When opening an e-mail, Gmail can summarize the entire thing for you so you don't have to read all of it.

Does everyone realize how fucking bizarre this is?

Both people in the conversation want to work with directness and brevity, and Google is doing textual steganography in the middle.

Show threadChristopherMay 10, 2023
@rodhilton They've made features that just add and remove their own bullshit? That's kind of amazing that people can spend their days making stuff that just cancels out the other stuff they're making like that.
Show threadAndy Jones
@kichae @rodhilton They've made a feature that adds bullshit, and they've made another feature that replaces it with shorter bullshit. LLMs can only add BS, not remove it.
May 11, 2023 at 6:46amWeb