Gemini's UX (and of course privacy cred as with anything Google) is the worst of all the AI apps. In the eyes of the Common Man, it's UI that will win out, and ChatGPT's is still the best.

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xnx 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Google privacy cred is ... excellent? The worst data breach I know of them having was a flaw that allowed access to names and emails of 500k users.

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bitpush 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Link? Are you conflating with "500k Gmail accounts leaked [by a third party]" with Gmail having a breach?

Afaik, Google has had no breaches ever.

	▲	xnx 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Google_data_breach
	▲	Razengan 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Google is the breach.

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laurex 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If you consider "privacy" to be 'a giant corporation tracks every bit of possible information about you and everyone else'?

	▲	xnx 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		OpenAI is running ads. Do you think they'll track less?

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Razengan 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They don't even let you have multiple chats if you disable their "App Activity" or whatever (wtf is with that ass naming? they don't even have a "Privacy" section in their settings the last time I checked)

and when I swap back into the Gemini app on my iPhone after a minute or so the chat disappears. and other weird passive-aggressive take-my-toys-away behavior if you don't bare your body and soul to Googlezebub.

ChatGPT and Grok work so much better without accounts or with high privacy settings.

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alexpotato 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Gemini's UX ... is the worst of all the AI apps

Been using Gemini + OpenCode for the past couple weeks.

Suddenly, I get a "you need a Gemini Access Code license" error but when you go to the project page there is no mention of this or how to get the license.

You really feel the "We're the phone company and we don't care. Why? Because we don't have to." [0] when you use these Google products.

PS for those that don't get the reference: US phone companies in the 1970s had a monopoly on local and long distance phone service. Similar to Google for search/ads (really a "near" monopoly but close enough).

0 - https://vimeo.com/355556831

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ainch 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I find Gemini's web page much snappier to use than ChatGPT - I've largely swapped to it for most things except more agentic tasks.

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jonathanstrange 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You mean AI Studio or something like that, right? Because I can't see a problem with Google's standard chat interface. All other AI offerings are confusing both regarding their intended use and their UX, though, I have to concur with that.

	▲	ergonaught 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The lack of "projects" alone makes their chat interface really unpleasant compared to ChatGPT and Claude.
	▲	xnx 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		AI Studio is also significantly improved as of yesterday.
	▲	wiseowise 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		No projects, completely forgets context mid dialog, mediocre responses even on thinking, research got kneecapped somehow and is completely uses now, uses propaganda Russian videos as the search material (what’s wrong with you, Google?), janky on mobile, consumes GIGABYTES of RAM on web (seriously, what the fuck?). Left a couple of tabs over night, Mac is almost complete frozen because 10 tabs consumed 8 GBs of RAM doing nothing. It’s a complete joke.

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uxhoiuewfhhiu 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Gemini is completely unusable in VS Code. It's rated 2/5 stars, pathetic: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Google.g...

Requests regularly time out, the whole window freezes, it gets stuck in schizophrenic loops, edits cannot be reverted and more.

It doesn't even come close to Claude or ChatGPT.