GMAIL: Gemini will now automatically summarize long emails unless you opt out

[rcjordan]

Uh, no.  If you depend on accuracy in your incoming Gmail (business, medical, etc), you'll need to opt out.

Disable this in Gmail's Settings under "Smart features."


https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/30/gemini-will-now-automatically-summarize-your-long-emails-unless-you-opt-out/

[ergophobe]

Opting out will not help. As a reader of email, you can choose to read the accurate version. The problem is that as a writer you cannot *force* the recipient to read your detailed version.

My experience with some co-workers was that they would send an email asking what possible options we have. I would write a precise email with bullet points for all three viable options. They would reply: "Greta. We shoudl do the stedfce one ASAP."

I finally started just bouncing any email like that and saying "I don't understand" and encouraged everyone else to do the same, because the guilty culprits led to a lot of wasted back and forth and, in the worst case, a lot of wasted work when someone would guess at what their typo-filled email was trying to say.

Basically, what the AI summary means is that those people are never going to read the text of the original message ever again. They barely did it before.

So rather than opting out, what you need is a tool that shows you, the writer, what the AI summary is going to be so you know what the recipient will actually read