AOL's Innovative Card-Based Email Service, Alto, Comes To iOS And Android (fastcompany.com)

Posted by msmash on Thursday September 29, 2016 @07:30AM from the new-email-client dept.

Remember AOL? The company best known for its email service? Three years ago, it released a Pinterest-like platform for desktop email called Alto. Today AOL announced the release of Alto for iOS and Android -- nearly a year after it began beta testing it. FastCompany writes: The app's design is based on the idea that email has shifted from a communication tool to more of a transactional system -- today's inboxes are filled with receipts, order confirmations, and reservations, rather than personal messages. To combat this flood of data, Alto automatically sorts email into stacks, such as "travel," "photos," "files," "shopping," and "personal."

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Read the TOS - it scans your email for advertising by generic_screenname · 2016-09-29 07:47 · Score: 4, Informative

According to the TOS, and common sense, this is scanning your emails to serve you ads. Granted, Gmail does the same thing, so maybe no one will care. It is still worth mentioning.
Re:Read the TOS - it scans your email for advertis by swb · 2016-09-29 09:00 · Score: 3, Informative

The only way you will be able to trust any kind of AI for sorting personal information will be if the software is something you buy and own.
But any AI development will be built around monetizing your information, so they will always be "free" and untrustable.