After the dust had settled from the thousands, even millions of Americans who protested Trump and Musk this past weekend, I discovered that a protest “alert” from Yahoo was in my email box.
Upon a close reading, however, of the so-called alert, I had to wonder how many would-be protesters had been fooled by it.
Here’s a screen shot:
If you can’t read it, here’s what it says verbatim:
“You’re reminded to prepare for the ‘Hands Off! San Diego Fights Back’ event against COVID-19 on Saturday, Apr 5, 2025, at 12pm PDT at Civic Center Plaza, 1200 Third Ave, San Diego, CA 92101 ….”
Noticing the baldfaced misinformation in the email, I clicked on the accompanying icon and learned:
“Yahoo Mail uses AI to summarize the most important information from you message. This technology is new and may make mistakes. View Terms”
Elderly Man Who Still Uses Yahoo! Mail and Was Fooled by Multiple April Fools Day Jokes Supremely Confident He Knows More About the Economics of Housing Than Trained Professionals
This comment makes no sense, is not relevant to the issue in the post just for starters. But Why ol smart one do you type each first letter of every word in caps?
what????????????? I don’t even understand this……..
I believe Shelly was making fun of me, an elderly man still using yahoo email (I also use gmail — I have 2 email accounts) and who she claims was fooled etc. None of her comment had anything to do with my complaint about Yahoo AI’s screw-up. Her comment was left up as it shows a high level of competency.
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Unfortunately, ageism is the current normal and that’s not likely the change anytime soon. At least (unlike other forms of discrimination) those who inflict will eventually become its victims.
I mean Jesus H Christ! Doesn’t Shelly have anything better to do? than to make ageist comments of the guy who administers the platform she’s reading?