This author is asking Google's chatbot, Bard, about this feature and reporting it as if its responses are fact. It is incredibly irresponsible to present quotes from Bard as fact or as official Google communication. It ends up making for a very confusing article (complete with a multi-paragraph late addition with more non-fact-based speculation about Apple features that might or might not be coming nine months from now?!) that has absolutely no useful information.<p>As for what has actually been announced (LLM-based writing assistance within Google Messages), do people actually want chatbots to write their text messages for them? I certainly don't. But what a terrible world we'll be living in if "AI" anti-features like this take hold. Next to no real-world utility from LLM tech, but just one more layer of inhumanity injected into our worsening communication. This is a sure way to send messages you don't mean, but it's even worse because there's probably another LLM on the other end, summarizing all meaning and personality out of the messages anyway. So all text-based human communication will soon be reduced to a neverending string of misunderstandings thanks to the LLM-telephone game happening between you and your contacts.