Emma Roth's the AI deleted thousands of Gmail promos — sign-in kept glitching on mobile

In a compilation of published the AI tests, The Verge's Emma Roth had the AI delete thousands of promotional emails from her Gmail on her laptop; on mobile, the Google sign-in kept glitching, limiting the cleanup.

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How it works

Connected Gmail on laptop, Deleted thousands of promotional emails, Mobile attempts blocked by repeated Google sign-in glitches

Why it’s worth knowing

Bulk deletion worked on desktop but the same job kept failing on mobile sign-in.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on dev.to. See the original ↗

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