Always stuck to the flagship google models as my primary driver (starting with the G1 in college) for the pure google experience, but between killing assistant in favor of Gemini which can't do something as simple as telling me the weather without hallucinating and the sideloading lockdown shenanigans might as well switch over to Apple fully.

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duskdozer 19 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Why not use a custom ROM and install what you want?

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croes 19 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

All the ads I get for Google Gemini are always about fake selfies so I guess fake data is its main purpose

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Tactical45 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Don't be dramatic. Gemini is fine. I have the Google voice setup all throughout my house and haven't had any issues major enough that would want me to keep the original assistant.

	▲	jessfyi 19 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It's not dramatic, it's just something you personally haven't noticed. A quick search regarding Gemini weather hallucination shows it's both widespread and something not mitigated by recent model releases. It makes up other basic information or can't perform tasks that a simple assistant can do properly (e.g. mixing up calendar events, emails, can't navigate etc). Why defend what is clearly a move to increase a department's KPIs when you as a consumer receive less in return?
	▲	lawsthro0532 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Besides mispronouncing words most days, it literally said it was snowing and Florida-hot in one sentence this week. It's the first time it's been that wrong though.
	▲	selicos 17 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Gemini has no idea what to do when I tell it to 'Navigate home'. Or 'Next song'. It's objectively worse at every basic command.
	▲	LogicFailsMe 19 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Gemini defaults to performing search from within its own weights until you curse it and damn it sufficiently to do basic RAG. Utter trash on this limitation/behavior alone but there are so many other hallucinatory shenanigans it embraces so why limit yourself to one. Compare and contrast with asking Claude or ChatGPT a question directly and get back to me.
	▲	SirFatty 19 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I never thought I'd see a Gemini apologist.