Only if you are a llm pretending to be an A.I.

If I got a warning about prompt injections, I would check my browsers add-ons and remove anything that I didn’t absolutely trust. Your email likely contains a lot of personal info that can be used for identity theft and other related things.

Only if you are piping those emails into something like an LLM assistant or search tool, especially if you’re not checking the results. And in that case, it doesn’t matter what email provider you use.

I can see it maybe messing with search results when you look through your email, but again that’s independent of email provider.

so this is how i learn that gmail has AI shit integrated, lmao

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 used Gmail, I would turn the LLM features off and let someone else discover how risky it is. (Edit: It’s really probably fine, but I’m very risk averse with my email.)

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.