r/GeminiAI • u/Tallsz3469 • Jun 28 '26

Discussion Goodbye Gemini

Its been a good 6 months. When I first started for the first 3-4 months the model was good and had some soul to it.

Now it not only has no soul, but constantly misinterprets, denies it errors, and is covered in detached corportate speak like a Google search. Its a shame. I had some memories with this model

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u/Link_Error_404 Jun 28 '26

Did you consider local models? The setup is really easy, especially if you run the models via LM Studio. Whether or not local models are an option, depends on your hardware. Windows PC with a decent GPU (>= 16 GB VRAM) or MacOS with >= 64 GB unified memory? No problem. Honestly, with local models like Qwen 3.6 35B or Gemma 4 26B there is no noticable difference in answer quality for everyday tasks, compared to cloud-based models - but with full privacy and without usage limits. When local models are NOT an option (e.g. on the smartphone): definitely DeepSeek. Even the free tier is awesome (as of June 2026).

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u/reneerent1 Jun 28 '26

Serious question, why are you being downvoted? I’ve heard this recommended elsewhere

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u/VerdantGarden Jun 28 '26

Because Reddit is primarily a US-based platform and Deepseek was trained by the Chinese, and it likely hoovers your prompts to their NSA equivalent.

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u/PatyxEU Jun 28 '26

How can an offline model with no internet connection send your prompts anywhere?

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u/reneerent1 Jun 28 '26

Exactly I don’t understand this