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> So, if a friend asks you out to dinner, your phone will suggest you text "". Then, it’ll also pull up directions right in Google Maps.

"Smart reply" sounds like a privacy nightmare. Now just opening a text causes unsolicited connections to made to Google's servers and other websites containing the contents of your messages. I hope this is something you can easily disable.



It's completely on-device [0]. The prediction models have been shrunk [1] so no connections are made (Google has enabled lots of shrunken on-device models with TF Lite [2]) . I'm not sure why this page doesn't call that out considering how privacy-focused the other features are.

0. https://www.androidauthority.com/smart-reply-android-q-98364...

1. https://www.tensorflow.org/lite/models/smart_reply/overview

2. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1708.00630.pdf, https://www.tensorflow.org/lite/guide


That sounds way more reasonable!




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