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Re:Big brother is here, and his name is Facebook by glandium on Saturday August 12, 2017 @05:49PM (#15000196)
> For what it is worth, as of June 2017 gmail no longer scans email content for ads

The important part of that sentence is "for ads". Obviously, they don't do antispam out of thin air, they still have to scan email for it.

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Re:Big brother is here, and his name is Facebook by shubb on Saturday August 12, 2017 @06:28PM (#15000387)
Lately, they are offering quite good context sensitive caned responses.

For instance I got an email earlier confirming a cancellation due to illness. It suggested I respond 'Thank you for your understanding'.

That's some quite good natural language stuff running on every email, presumably building a model.

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Re:Big brother is here, and his name is Facebook by statguy on Sunday August 13, 2017 @04:07AM (#15002042)
Yes, some details are here: https://research.googleblog.com/2015/11/computer-respond-to-... https://research.googleblog.com/2017/05/efficient-smart-repl...
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