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The good news: even if you think the AI is good-for-nothing, rewriting HTML into legible plaintext is the one thing it can do pretty well. And probably even a 3B model would do well on this task, so you don't need to send the email body off to the cloud to be data-mined.

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That's such a silly overkill use of AI. I'm not having my mail server kick off a 100W GPU every time I receive an email just to extract text from a structured document, nor am I having my computer drain my battery the moment I receive an email. Outsourcing the ridiculous power consumption to the cloud as some kind of dataleak-as-a-service is even worse. I'd rather try to parse the HTML with regex.

Why do we need AI for that? Can’t we just strip html tags?

You could do that, actually. I brought up AI because it could result in slightly cleaner output than just the naive de-tagging, and because you can use it for general purpose text tasks - not just HTML to plaintext but also semantic message labelling/search, suggestion of task items in a to-do list, maybe some other things too.

Can't wait for half of my emails being hallucinated

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