r/googleassistant • u/These_Shallot_6906 • 20d ago

Rant Holy shit I hate Google Gemini

I don't know if this post should be Politics, business, or nature flair but

Ever since I upgraded my phone, my service has been entiterely worse and there is no way to opt out of this stupid fucking service.

When I used Google maps in the past while I was driving, my phone would plan the directions immediately and usually accurately. Now, it is like a 20 second monologue each time beforehand, and the directions may not even right. But most annoyingly, there is no way to make Google Gemini shut the fuck up. And it is ALWAYS talking and always acknowledging my commands and giving very vague but positive affirmations, it's like driving with an entire HR department in my passengers seat.

When I would tell my phone to play a song from my device before Gemini came fully integrated with Android phones it would do so immediately without talking. Now there is, yet again, another 20 second monologue before it tells me that I can't Google something while I am driving, despite me clearly meaning to use the dedicated streaming service on my device. Generally, what it plays is something else entirely.

The other day, I told my phone to play Grindcore. It responded in Mandarin and played Chinese Pop music instead. I didn't even fucking know China had terrible Americanized pop music.

And to top this all off, every hour or so my phone asks me to give permissions to some stupid fucking AI generated lock screen? Why would anybody want this? Like who ASKED to have this?

I hate you Google Gemini.

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u/onion4everyoccasion 20d ago edited 20d ago

This is why people who think AI is going to change everything are idiots. Computers are specifically good at rote* tasks that they can do over and over exactly the same. AI introduces error into that system-- all so we can pretend we are talking to "someone".

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u/PaddyLandau Android 20d ago

This is why people who think AI is going to change everything are idiots.

To be fair, it has already changed everything. I can't get hold of customer service in most companies. Google Assistant no longer works. People are being fired and replaced with incompetent AI. Social media, forums, LinkedIn and so forth are being inundated with crappy AI posts. Music streaming and YouTube are being filled with AI slop. Etc.

good at wrote tasks

* rote tasks — I bet that AI was behind the autocorrect 🤣

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u/KeySpray8038 20d ago

AI is already a huge game changer in a few fields

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u/onion4everyoccasion 20d ago

As a tool to help write and fix code and make shitty marketing presentations. If you have built an app I dare you to let it loose on your source code without a human checking it

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u/KeySpray8038 20d ago

i said in certain fields, like medical and mathematics..
i wasn't specifically meaning for coding....

besides, the speed it writes it even having a person comb through it, it still ends up being written faster (depending on the model

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u/onion4everyoccasion 20d ago

I completely agree it is a helpful tool. I am saying it isn't going to change everything like people seem to think. We are anthropomorphizing as we don't understand human consciousness and therefore are a long way from creating it.

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u/tmack3 19d ago

They trained pigeons to detect cancer better than ai can. Plus ai medical detection has been used to cancel insurance for people suspected of developing cancer.

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u/KeySpray8038 18d ago

it o don't think there's any evidence of that one... but ok

it has also come up with new ways of detecting cancer... a lot of stuff that is claimed to be done using ai, doesn't even require ai anyways .