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April 17, 2023
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Read.ai

  • April 17, 2023
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I made  the mistake of using read.ai and I cannot figure out how to get rid of it.

 

People are now kicking me out of meetings due to the read.ai appearing in the chat.

    13 replies

    ZoomVA
    Community Manager
    Community Manager
    April 17, 2023

    Hi @HolyHowie and welcome to the Zoom Community! To uninstall read.ai (or any app!) from your Zoom account, please login to your Zoom Web Portal, select Advanced > App Marketplace and follow the steps outlined in our support article here. I hope this helps!

    Newcomer
    June 29, 2023

    Thank you for this, however I must say I too have been haunted by the read.ai and it has upset some of my guests, "wait a minute, you said this was a private call!" And there goes trust. I have been hunting the zoom portal for how to disable auto record, disable ai, name it. Not until I searched chats did I find the solution. Requesting zoom make it a better experience for paying users...actually all users, to disable this ai feature. Thank you

     

    Newcomer
    July 3, 2023

    Kevin, I 1000000% agree with you. It has been such a pain in the butt! Not to mention I've lost valuable video.... can't get that time back.

    Newcomer
    May 19, 2023

    If you did not add this from your web portal you can delete the account from the Read Ai login.  Here is a link to do that.  Once you log in go to the bottom of the page on the left where you email is and manage your account.  Scroll to the bottom and click delete account.  Read -https://app.read.ai/analytics/signin

    Sign in

    Newcomer
    July 12, 2023

    Thank you for the link 🙂

    Newcomer
    August 22, 2023

    I found the answer! At least this worked for me: When the read.ai app appears in the zoom meeting, direct message it with "read STOP" (without the quotes). This caused it to disappear and no longer reappear for us. I hope it works as easily for you all.

    Newcomer
    August 24, 2023

    where do you type this? in the meeting chat? and how can we detect if a user is using read.ai because we removed read.ai from the participants list and the person who was using the read.ai came forward and advised that here's the transcript from our meeting. this is very scary because how can you tell which participant was using it?

    Newcomer
    August 25, 2023

    I think I found the person who's read.ai account is attempting to record my meetings, He only attended a couple of our meetings (and was playing with read.ai a few months ago) and no longer attends but his read.ai account continues to try to join my weekly meetings. 

    There should be a way to kill these attempts, especially if the person doesn't attend the meetings. Is seems like you shouldn't be able to record meetings you don't attend. I asked him to try to find the account he was playing with and cancel the read.ai attendance.  

    Newcomer
    September 28, 2023

    Absolutely horrible experience.
    Signed up through Zoom for it but wasn't serving the purpose I thought it would have

    But so intrusive.

    For the life of me, found it so difficult to remove.

    Hopefully suceeded

    Think

    Newcomer
    November 15, 2023

    Hi Zoom - Here's the deal, I'm NOT logged into a Zoom account when I join a meeting and READ.AI is showing up as being started by me. I DO NOT have an account on Read.ai. Didn't even know it existed until this started happening, and I have absolutely NO way to turn this off (because it is happening on zoom calls where I'm not logged in, and I don't have a read.ai account). Please fix this immediately as it is causing major issues when I join a meeting. 

    This is not okay, and the way you have integrated this feels unethical, at best. Fix it. Now.

    Best, 

     

    -LoJo

    Newcomer
    December 5, 2023

    this is the most annoying app ever. and getting rid of it is WAY to hard, I still can't figure out. 

    Newcomer
    December 5, 2023

    You can adjust Join Preferences (ex. set to manual) at https://app.read.ai/analytics/settings/user/calendar

    You can delete your account at https://app.read.ai/analytics/settings/user/other

    Newcomer
    April 13, 2024

    Considering most people didn't sign up for an account, they should not have to log into an app they didn't ask for to delete an account. Who pray tell opened an account in my name without my permission??

    CarlaA
    Community Manager
    Community Manager
    April 18, 2024

    Hi everyone, 

     

    It's possible that someone invited to your call has enabled Read. They don't necessarily need to attend the meeting; just being invited is enough. Read can only join if a Read user invited to the meeting adds it.

     

    Each meeting platform supported by Read has a built-in chat function. When Read joins a meeting, it sends a message to the chat that looks something like this:

     

    If you see your own name listed, it means you have a Read account. In this case, you should:

    1. Search your emails for messages from support@e.read.ai, such as the "Welcome to Read!" email sent to new users.
    2. Check the primary email address of your Read account in the "to:" line.
    3. If you have multiple email addresses, check all your inboxes.
    4. If you used single sign-on (SSO) like Microsoft or Google to create your account, try logging in using those options if you're unable to with your email and password.

     

    As mentioned in some comments on this thread, you can also type in the chat read stop to disable read ai or opt out to delete meeting data. 

     

    Additionally, you can remove an automated meeting tool from a meeting if you don't want it to record the content. Click the Security icon in the Zoom Meeting window and then click Remove Participant.

     

    Another method to prevent automated tools from joining is to enable a waiting room for your entire account or a specific user within your account. This way, you only admit participants, not automated tools.

     

    For more information on preventing Read.ai from joining meetings, check out: How do I remove or stop Read from joining meetings?

     

    Newcomer
    April 19, 2024

    This is not helpful. I get emails saying read has join my meeting room when I am not even on Zoom, nor is it signed on.
    When I go in to find it and do something about it it is gone.
    My waiting room is always enabled and it makes no difference.
    The onus should not be on people to learn all the tricks to try and stop it, it should be on Zoom to fix a problem it created that no one asked for.

    Newcomer
    April 19, 2024

    Is it possible to stop users from adding Read.ai to their Zoom accounts? I have users signed up for Read.ai and they used it during private meeting when they were not even the host of the meetings. I know we can control users from adding the app under marketplace, but some users signed up outside of Zoom.

    Explorer
    July 12, 2024

    I just discovered the same problem.  We don't have marketplace apps turned on through our Zoom account and I couldn't even figure out how the app could work in our meetings.  I finally discovered that if you go to the Read-ai website and sign into your account you'll see that it is connecting to your calendar entries.  From there, it scrapes the data for your Zoom meeting ID and joins the meeting as a guest participant with the name "read.ai meeting notes".  Once it is in the meeting, it adds itself to the meeting chat.  I have no idea what data the app itself is collecting, but since we often have HIPAA data and use a BAA with Zoom we are very concerned.  I'm trying to send out a message to our users not to download the program, and if they see it in their meetings to kick out the guest participant.

    Newcomer
    August 13, 2024

    This is a serious problem on the scale of Orwell's Big Brother.

    Up until now I have trusted in Zoom as a responsible provider of a valuable service. Now I am not sure.

    Surely, Read AI cannot be trusted. But I am especially dismayed to learn that Zoom even allows Read AI to get its insidious tentacles into Zoom software and requires unsuspecting meeting hosts to spend hours trying to figure out how to regain control of their meetings, all the while risking their privacy and that of meeting participants.

     

    Will Zoom do anything to redeem itself or must I search for an alternative video meeting service?

    I cannot believe that