It appears that turning off the new “Smart Features” in #GMail that “provide smart features and personalize your experience” also turns off a decades-old feature that categorizes spam away from your Inbox.
Smart Features uses Gemini #AI to enable LLM-assisted email composition and summary, and to suggest stuff from your calendars and promotional items.
In other words, disabling GMail’s AI features requires you to give up a categorization feature that you’ve had for decades, long before “AI” as we know it today was even a thing.
#enshittification
https://support.google.com/mail/thread/389345915/turning-off-ai-smart-features-just-puts-all-my-sorted-emails-into-my-inbox
Dave Rahardja
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2026-01-15 07:28:12 UTC
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