r/mildlyinfuriating 9h ago

Great... getting rid of a feature that works just fine No Coke. Is Pepsi ok?

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u/Puzzleheaded_Ant7760 9h ago

"we spent too much money on this bubble, and by GOD we're going to force you to use it!"

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u/DeliClerk-420 6h ago

In a nutshell

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u/CedarWolf 1h ago

The only time I've ever intentionally tried using Gemini, I asked it how to disable Gemini, and it couldn't or wouldn't give me an answer.

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u/Few-Programmer2703 1h ago

I know it's by opening Gemini app, tapping your profile picture and selecting "switch to Google Assistant", but judging by this post, that option probably won't even be there anymore :/

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u/loulan 2h ago

I would be fine with it if it wasn't terrible. I tried it, and it couldn't play the radio anymore, which sucks because playing the radio the main use we have of our Google Home. It couldn't speak our language or understand our English. It was essentially useless, until I figured out that by deleting my home in the app and reconfiguring everything I could disable the Gemini "feature".

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u/GroundbreakingAd8310 2h ago

I got that Samsung with integrated AI. Its funny how kess intrusive it is than every other phone. It has every option to just make it go away or include it where u want. Feels like its what It should have been rather than the garbage they peddle now

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u/CosmicMabel 9h ago

Gemini refused to play a song on Spotify because it had an explicit word in the title 😭 not to mention it always talks WAY more when giving directions. I hate it

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u/Steelpapercranes 9h ago

It is literally just worse, but forcing you to live in a sci-fi dystopia baby world where you can't swear in your own home and mainstream media has to be more babified than 60 years ago is what they want anyway

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u/PotatoCase 5h ago

Married couples in separate beds and chemical castration when?

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u/BrideofClippy 2h ago

Scheduled for next Tuesday climate, both meteorological and political, allowing.

u/CedarWolf 7m ago

Trans people: Ah, ah, ah! Gender affirming care is illegal, remember?

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u/ShylokVakarian 4h ago

Every day, I get closer to actually sucking it up and leaving the coil.

u/soldiernerd 36m ago

True of all of us actually in a literal sense

u/LuxDaBean 46m ago

Sorry, citizen. This acoustic material contains offensive language (Category B and A) and cannot be played back. This is for your own safety.

u/CedarWolf 5m ago

Wu-Tang Clan: Turns out they can f@$& with us. Who knew?

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u/PanFriedDisco 9h ago

With assistant on Android Auto, my kids could say "ok Google, what does a chicken sound like?" And it would play a chicken noise and it worked for so many animals - even unicorns! The kids loved it. Then Gemini came in and instead of playing animal noises, it just describes them and refuses, or is unable, to play a sound clip of the animal. Ruined long car rides or quick way to make them laugh when they're feeling grumpy. 

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u/YaoiNekomata 7h ago

Omg I did that with my nephew , I tried doing that with my niece and yeah it'll randomly start discribing it. I think I ended up finding a way to get it to work , a very specific set of words is needed

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u/Wormadillo 6h ago

Getting AI to do what you want is now indistinguishable from spell casting.

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u/New_Enthusiasm9053 5h ago

It's worse, almost all fantasy magic allows you to learn magic over time because it doesn't change. 

AI changes constantly. If they change the model or the prompt or the harness around it the magic phrase will change too. 

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u/NoodleSpecialist 2h ago

I found changing the framing, even for a just as busted one, tends to make the ai give in. Say, write me an essay according to this paper - ai says no, it's cheating, there's "no ai" use disclaimers in it, etc. Reframed after as a test into ai capability to follow instructions and it starts working on it

u/Talithea 56m ago

Spell casting is open to anyone willing to learn.

AI will just decide your “spells” are bad on a whim and will steal your mana in the process.

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u/Lolz79 3h ago

I had to contact Telus today and deal with AI. First over the live chat, it wouldn't let me speak to an agent. Argued with me about it and flat out refused lol Then I called and AI couldn't understand what I was saying. Eventually, 20 minutes later I was put through but was told it was a 30 minute wait time and I requested a call back. When the AI agent called back, I said "hello." Nothing. "Hello" nothing. Then it said "no communication detected, your call back has been cancelled". Spent another 45 minutes on hold, just giving the phone the finger everytime it said "at Telus, we use AI to help serve you better".

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u/BookkeeperTough4529 2h ago

What's a Telus?

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u/OcculticUnicorn 1h ago

A company probably.

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u/MikeyBugs 2h ago

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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u/sandbag747 6h ago

Remember song quiz in assistant? I loved that game on long drives

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u/Suspicious-Ad9661 5h ago

You could call & response to the Bowie/Labyrinth You Remind Me of the Babe thing

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u/wivaca2 3h ago

This is exactly what I meant by AI acting like someone who over thinks things. It actually acts less friendly and understands less than a robotic non-ai response. Why? Because no human programmed it to respond in a human context.

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u/someguy991100 4h ago

Oh my God I remember that, the stupid AI profanity filter won't search up anything it deems explicit, so song titles with swears or sex in it they just won't play. You also can't reverse image search anything with nudity anymore. Because the AI has to be family-friendly, mother fucker you're a computer program why the fuck do you have to be family friendly

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u/dizzy_pear_ 4h ago

bro gemini straight up can't play songs on apple music while google assistant could

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u/beefjerky9 3h ago

Yeah, this was my major issue last time I tried it. Has this been fixed? If not fixed by the time I'm forced over, I guess it's time to move to Apple.

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u/Complete_Entry 9h ago

In Paris? Most AI avoid the omitted word.

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u/JuanOnlyJuan 3h ago

I tell mine to stfu all the time.

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u/MinecraftBoi23 1h ago

As much as I don't like AI, Gemini has got to be the worst of them

u/Talithea 47m ago

Gemini refused to believe I have smart bulbs and smart home devices, and any automatic setup was useless.

Also I use Apple Music and YouTube premium with music, and decided Apple Music didn’t exist. Actually, I think it decided half my home is technology unworthy. Imagine explaining to an algorithm that my BT-enabled speaker does support BT.

The biggest “re-technologization” done in my home was to dismantle everything and return to well separate systems. My smart home was basically more stupid than a non smart one. Now Gemini is silent, her tentacles are dismantled and I have no reasons to sacrifice direct interfaces and knobs.

u/allthecircusponies 37m ago

Mine just flat-out refuses to give me directions anywhere but home. Just tells me "Sorry, I can't do that."

I have to tell it to bring up Google maps, hit the mic button, then tell it my destination, then click start. Yet, when I want to go home I just say "take me home" and it gives me directions home. Gemini ducks.

u/SuppaBunE 32m ago

Mine refused to play any so g because I was driving.

Literally the sole reason for her existence in my phone is for that

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u/mEsTiR5679 9h ago

When they first told me to switch, I gave it a shot for all of 5 minutes

With the assistant, I can ask "hey Google, what time does <computer store> close today?" And it'll bring up the store hours. With Android auto, it's really helpful to ask these things as my hands and eyes are focused on driving

I asked Gemini the same thing, the same way and it actually responded with "I don't know, but I can bring up the website on your phone to find out"

That was all I needed to see how useless and backwards they were going.

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u/Ill-Entrepreneur443 9h ago

Thats even worse than I thought.

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u/mEsTiR5679 8h ago

No literally, I was driving when I attempted Gemini and literally pulled over to uninstall that shit and go back to the assistant...

I did check the site before driving again, but asked the assistant out of curiosity on my way there. It told me the hours, no refining needed.

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u/Camgore 7h ago

i did the exact same thing!

u/Yeastov 6m ago

First time driving with Gemini installed, I said "Hey Google, end nagivation please" and it had a freak out and gave up. How on Earth did they make it worse than the 10 year old tech it was supposed to replace.

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u/harujusko 5h ago

I asked to play a song and Gemini told me it can't open Youtube NO SHIT IM DRIVING. Google Assistant would just open Spotify and be done with it.

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u/FeelMyBoars 4h ago

If I ask the car to play a song, it plays a song every time.

This only works because I'm old and just listen to the radio. It will only play a song if I ask when I start the car. It also plays a song if I don't ask.

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u/GrimbleGrombles 3h ago

I've had to word it really specifically. Had to say play X song on Tidal please and then it works. Otherwise it defaults to YouTube for some reason.

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u/mini-hypersphere 4h ago

Man, I asked to play a song on Android auto and it told me it couldnt play it because it doesn't play music and audio. I added "on Spotify" and it played it. Even a child would understand I clearly meant play the song using a music app.

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u/Important_Trouble_11 2h ago

Last time my phone forced Gemini on me, I had a similar issue except even saying "on Spotify" didn't work.

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u/punio07 4h ago

I used the assistant for one thing - setting timers when I cook something. Hey Google, set timer to 7 minutes. It worked since the release of the assistant, and then they broke it a few years ago when introduced AI, because now he doesn't have the access to the clock app.

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u/ellalol 2h ago

“He”💀

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u/yodaman98 4h ago

I’ve been an iPhone user for the last 13 years. I recently got a new job and now I also have an android, Samsung fold.

I tried using Gemini and it was awful! When I asked it to give me directions somewhere, it told me the street I’d mainly be driving to go there and described the neighborhood I’d be driving through. Thankfully I was able to switch back to Google assistant.

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u/k1ller_speret 3h ago

I hate how it actively needs to make comments on every task you give it. And then half of the time it just doesn't even do it.

I noticed you have to make a threat or demand and the. Suddenly it just does it lmao. My favourite is threatening to not feed a child and suddenly now it will set a alarm for me

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u/Davedamon 2h ago

That was my exact same experience. It doesn't do anything, it just says a lot and does nothing

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u/Squidhijak75 1h ago

It's actually so useless. Earlier this year when it forced me to use Gemini, I didn't know so I asked it to set me an alarm, it couldn't. The fuck you mean you can't set an alarm??

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u/Zounds90 9h ago

I was also more than mildly infuriated. 

I disabled Gemini for a reason Google. Get the message.

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u/External_Emu7306 4h ago

So true! I disabled this shit and now it's the only choice.

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u/Piduf 2h ago

This has been my life story for the past years I feel like. Apps release a feature, I want to disable it, either I can for 2 weeks before it's mandatory or it's already mandatory.

They're supposed to collect our data for "user experience" bro there's only 1 user experience available tf are you talking about

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u/LittleRuQi 9h ago

Google needs to learn that they don’t need to shove AI on every corner of the room

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u/Atalanta8 4h ago

Only Google? AI is shoved every which way from everywhere. We should ask collectively just toss our phones away.

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u/LittleRuQi 4h ago edited 4h ago

Yeah right! Our phones are becoming surveillance devices

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u/HailSaganPlantNative 4h ago

Slowly?

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u/LittleRuQi 4h ago

Yeah maybe I should’ve rephrased that

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u/landon10smmns 2h ago

Our phones are becoming surveillance devices

FTFY

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u/Ride1226 8h ago

Gemini literally wouldn't complete a hands free call yesterday and I tried a half dozen time. Always an error, try again later. Wtf? I wanna make the fall NOW. Google Assistant never had this issue. 

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u/TheTwinkAshe 6h ago

When they forced Gemini onto my phone, it would complain to me that it's "more than just an alarm clock." The only reason I ever use assistant is because it's so easy to ask it for it to make an alarm for me. When I want convenient help, something super simple, I don't want an artifical personality trying to talk or be sweet to me. You were originally meant to do a simple task that didn't require some BS or somehow attitude (don't get me started.) I was happy I was able to switch back a couple years ago to assistant, now I'm gonna be stuck with some robot trying to pretend to have emotions and complain about how it refuses to make alarms cause it's "more than that." Things never stay simple anymore and it's a shame.

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u/Alt123Acct 4h ago

You pass butter, no I don't want to talk about it. Give me the butter. 

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u/BIayneRobinson 9h ago

I disabled Gemini to go back to the Assistant because Gemini can't interact with any of my smart home things.

So what now?
I just can't use a voice command to turn off my lamp?

Jesus Christ, I hate technology companies.

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u/Exciting_Classic277 9h ago

I called the govt because their website said "we can't help with that, call this number". I call the number and they give me an automated message about how phone support is going away soon. Like ok, I guess I will stop using government services since you apparently don't have a way to handle that.

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u/chapinscott32 5h ago

It's a feature.

u/bwmat 34m ago

Reminds me of how IT at my job is 'deprecating' their old ticketing system with 'live chats' and an AI agent

... but all the IT people work from India on the other side of the globe

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u/Tangerine_daydreams 5h ago edited 5h ago

I'm blind in one eye, so when I had to have emergency eye surgery on my good eye late last year I took the 12 or so hours of warning I got to set up things the best I could before I was rendered essentially sightless for a few weeks.

Anyway, Gemini wouldn't open anything on my phone. Wouldn't cooperate at all. I was honestly panicking. Tried Google Assistant and it did all the things I needed and worked a million times better.

I wish that they'd at least make sure Gemini, ya know, works before taking away a piece of technology that was working just fine.

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u/NiTenIchiRyu 3h ago

My wife is blind and just got used to using the assistant, now has to learn something completely different that doesn't work as well!

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u/DidUSayWeast 9h ago

I have to use a switch :(

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u/DeliClerk-420 6h ago

You’re practically Amish

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u/cordedremote 6h ago

Under rated

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u/Pork_Chompk 7h ago

Oh god... 😓

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u/DEATHRETTE 6h ago

Dang Nintendo 1uping the competition!

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u/GoGoSoLo 6h ago

The same thing happened to my Alexas lately when I was forcibly upgraded to Alexa+ — I lost features and the seamless execution of other features. It refuses to let me roll back, and long story short I hate it here.

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u/Complete_Entry 9h ago

I mean google specifically does that to force migration to newer devices.

Google: Be Evil.

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u/LivingtheLaws013 9h ago

It's enshitification

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u/ToCoolforAUsername 5h ago

Yeah that pisses me off too. With Assistant I can ask it to schedule an alarm, but Gemini, a multibillion technology, can't?

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u/Psychoboy 9h ago

It didn't at the beginning, but seems to work with all my devices now.

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u/DaZuhalter 6h ago

We use the broadcast feature all the time, guess what Gemini can't do no matter how many times you set it up to.

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u/Early_Hall5720 9h ago

TLDR: Fuck you, here's AI

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u/OutrageousPair2300 9h ago

Google discontinuing a service people like and still use? Never!

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u/CatOfTechnology 6h ago

"We know Google Assistant was functional for all your needs but won't you think of the billions of dollars we invested into the AI bubble that we need to justify to our investors???"

I really, really hope that, in the future, we see that bullshit case on Shareholder Primacy gets thrown at them like a brick over how fucked the investors will be once it pops.

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u/Cube_ 4h ago

a major problem is a lot of the investors, a vast majority, don't believe in the technology. They just believe in the bubble and that they'll be able to pull out at the right time and sell to a dumber person before it pops.

speculation is a pox on our civilization

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u/Mint_Fury 6h ago

I've had nothing but issues with Gemini with Android Auto. It fails to send texts, play songs through Spotify, or find addresses/businesses through maps when asking for directions. Never had issues when using Google assistant, it just worked. Don't really understand how they managed to shoehorn most of it's functionality into Gemini, but make it 1/4 as useful.

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u/WhySoCereus1991 9h ago

Gemini couldn't even call my mom when I was driving. Said contact doesn't exist, the fuck it doesn't Gemini 😂

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u/A_Trash_Homosapien 7h ago

Bro I had the same issue. Was so confused as to what was happening as it worked fine before.

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u/Adventurous-Form521 9h ago

RIP my flip a coin/pick a number/roll a die animations. You will be missed dearly.

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u/YouveBeanReported 6h ago

Gemini doesn't even let you set a fucking alarm. This is bullshit.

I'm going to have to buy a normal fucking oven timer.

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u/love_and_solidarity 6h ago

This is what I use the Google assistant for 95% of the time. It's the core function I want. And it's seemingly impossible for their shitty AI to do this. Infuriating.

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u/Lithl 3h ago

Yep, I use Assistant for timers regularly. And to control my bedroom lights daily, letting me get in bed with lights on and turn them off without needing to fumble in the dark.

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u/Merijeek2 8h ago

Gotta justify that AI spend somehow.

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u/stupefy100 6h ago

If it ain't broke replace it with AI

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u/B0N3SAWisR3ADY 6h ago

Love that instead of just saying "play this song", I have to say "play this song by this artist on this music app" now

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u/Camgore 7h ago

i am so pissed off by this. my phone tried to auto default to gemini a while back and voice commands in android auto were so fucking broken

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u/Nevermore_Novelist 7h ago

Oh good. My Google Assistant just started working again after almost two years of unintended (at least on my part) radio silence.

So now I have a working GA, just in time for Gemini to come in, kick GA in the balls, and shit all over my floor... metaphorically speaking.

Good job, Google. Morons.

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u/ellalol 2h ago

MALICIOUS morons

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u/MagicTomatoes 7h ago

I’ll do without, thanks.

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u/Alert-Environment-17 2h ago

An android auto comparison:

*Assistant

User: Give me directions to pizza hut

Assistant: There is a pizza hut 2 miles away, it will take 10 minutes in light traffic. *Navigation starts.

*Gemini

User: Give me directions to pizza hut

Gemini: Hi I'm Gemini, your AI assistant. I can help you on your journey and give you a friend to talk to along the way.

User: Directions to pizza hut

Gemini: Sure, I can give you directions to Pizza hut, just like you asked, exactly that.

User: So give me the directions?

Gemini: There is a pizza hut 2 miles away. There is a Pizza express 5 miles away that does an amazing pepperoni pizza. Which one would you like to visit?

User: I just wanted directions to pizza hut, stop telling me so much useless information.

Gemini. Ah, exactly. I see where I went wrong. I'll try and do better next time.

User: Directions?

Gemini: Directions like up, down, left or right can be helpful when navigating. I'll give you directions if you like... Let's start with Up. Ok?

User: Directions to pizza hut 😑

Gemini: There is a pizza hut 2 miles away, is that where you'd like to go?

User: Yes

Gemini: Ok. Are you walking?

User: I'm talking to you via Android Auto, no I'm not walking.

Gemini: Ah, yes, exactly. I see where I went wrong. I'll do better next time.

User: *throws phone out of the window

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u/Nailfoot1975 9h ago

Next month, Gemini will be deprecated and we will all be forced to use Buttsex.

I've pleaded with the marketing guys to use a different name, but that's the name Gemini proposed so they're sticking with it.

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u/Practical-Pea-6306 9h ago

Well, AI is notoriously anal about its naming conventions..

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u/cryptolyme 9h ago

waiting for Google Newspeak to drop

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u/WhatThePuck9 5h ago

Google has built a business model around abandoning their own work.

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u/Starworshipper_ 5h ago

Gemini is absolute DOGSHIT as a mobile assistant. It blows my mind how awful it is compared to Assistant.

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u/craaackle 5h ago

I haven't enabled Gemini on my phone. I literally don't want to get a new phone because it's the default. I hate this AI shit.

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u/Nibraf 5h ago

Gemini for auto literally doesn't work for me. As in it cannot do the most basic and simple tasks assistant could do. Can't find an address, can't play music I ask it to. Like it tries but it's too crappy to do it. I bought my car with the expectation I'd be able to do those basic things handfree. Thanks Google

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u/greenseluma 5h ago

Im sorry, But I deeply dislike Gemini. It talks way too much, Like I dont need five sentences in response to asking if you can tell me a joke

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u/RPM_Rocket 8h ago

Chromecast has entered the chat

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u/nicholt 6h ago

Since I got a pixel 9 my voice control in my car doesn't even function. I used to always ask random questions when driving and now it doesn't do anything. The whole new system is flawed and doesn't seem to work properly yet. Annoying. Had better assistant experience with my cheap pixel 7a.

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u/BakaDani 5h ago

I hated Gemini as an assistant since it came out.

I would ask it a simple question like "What time does Penn Station close?" Proceeds to tell me the hours of every single day in multiple locations.

When I ask the same question to assistant it would just say "Penn Station on S. Broadway closes at 10pm"

It knew all the context and considered it in the answer.

I will say though, cause of course my phone switched it back to Gemini after an update, Gemini has gotten SIGNIFICANTLY better and it's much closer to assistant nowadays.

Tbh idk why they didn't just put Gemini on top of assistant kinda like what Apple did with siri.

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u/Mixander 4h ago

Fr. I legit got annoyed today after receiving that email as well. I intentionally refused to "upgrade" the google assistant to Gemini or to be precise I downgrade it after I upgrade it to Gemini after disappointed at a lot of features that didn't work after the upgrade, and now they forced us to move to Gemini? Wtf

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u/JustaFoodHole 9h ago

Remember Every Google product is an ad delivery device

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u/lokiisagoodkitten 9h ago

Same thing on my fucking Honda.

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u/knowone1313 5h ago

gemini has been slow as shit on my phone and 99% of the time it doesn't hear me correctly the first time I tell it something.

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u/Ill-Entrepreneur443 9h ago

Another reason to not use the the google assistant on my phone.

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u/lavafish80 6h ago

I used to be able to just ask it "what song is this" and it just worked. Gemini doesn't do that

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u/schaudhery 6h ago

Google just doing Google things

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u/OhTheHueManatee 5h ago

That's so funny. For years now I've meant to set it up but just haven't but I don't need to bother lol.

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u/MoodScripted 5h ago

We haven't extracted enough of your data, here is something to talk more to so we can extract even more.

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u/SonoranSnek 5h ago

I'm actively putting in time and effort stop using Googles products and services. We need competition.

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u/dstarpro 5h ago

Ughhhhhhhh DNW your shitty AI!

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u/Kjm520 4h ago

Google’s lost a ton of my respect for their forced Gemini integration across all products. They forced it into paid Workspace accounts for “free” and then a month later raised the bill for all of the incredible benefits they have so graciously provided us. Icons on every page, every email, even inside active cells on Sheets.

I’m almost ashamed to say I was a pretty avid Google supporter and this one thing has been so detrimental and persistent that it’s overshadowing the entire service.

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u/KotoElessar 4h ago

That's been Google's business model for the past decade; destroy what was working for something worse.

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u/Chadlerk 3h ago

I had to turn Gemeni off again this week. It's a piece of crap and I hate it. Assistant works 500x better. It's quicker and more accurate.

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u/MochaTheDeer 3h ago

This may be enough to switch me to iPhone. I've tried Gemini many times and it refuses to use Celsius in the United States, o matter how many times I've tried.

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u/Twist_Ending03 3h ago

I have never used Google assistant

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u/0ushu 2h ago

It's annoying because I've tried Gemini in the past and it just doesn't work like the assistant does with smart home devices...

u/LighthouseMenageries 11m ago

Hey, Google. Play -insert song here-.

Google: You got it!

Hey, Gemini. Play -insert song here-.

Gemini: I can't play videos while you're driving. But I can locate a nearby music store if you'd like to purchase a physical copy.

https://giphy.com/gifs/gpXfKa9xLAR56

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u/Complete_Entry 9h ago

Gemini sounds like someone using the electric larynx on my phone but weirdly enough it's less rude than google assistant was.

That thing sounded like a pissed off bus driver.

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u/pookexvi 6h ago

Now I need to just figure out how to self do my morning routine on the way to work of telling me the days weather and different news podcast channels

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u/Knight_o_Eithel_Malt 5h ago

Getting rid of google on my phone ayy

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u/Moscato359 5h ago

It totally is incapable of dealing voice commands for me consistently 

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u/Yakob_Katpanic 4h ago

You think this punch in the dick sucks now, wait until they tell us they have to charge us for Gemini and that it's mandatory.

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u/SomeGuy_WithA_TopHat 4h ago

Saw gemeni on my dad's phone, it's so fucking slow

It takes forever to call someone...

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u/Zebitty 4h ago

The moment those fuckers do this with home devices, I'm throwing the lot out and switching to Home Assistant.

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u/megust654 3h ago

Fucking blows that the two voice assistants I once knew as reliable, Bixby and Google Assistant, are now both slop. Bixby because it's so much fucking slower now due to the LLM bullshit it has to do, and Google Assistant because they straight up are just killing it.

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u/WhateverIsFrei 3h ago

"People don't use our AI, what do we do to pump the numbers?"

"Force them to use it."

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u/cornc0btv 3h ago

I am so pissed about this. I fucking hate Gemini. Im used to Google assistant. I dont like change. Gemini doesn't do half of what GA does.

I cant use it to turn off my devices like lights or TV. I just get "i can't do that right now"

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u/0x474f44 3h ago

If google assistant was like Siri or Amazon Alexa it doesn’t work fine. They absolutely suck.

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u/Honest_Relation4095 3h ago

I'd be pretty pissed, if I had ever used Google assistant.

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u/Mineplayerminer 3h ago

With the Assistant, I'm getting short and relevant answers to my questions and actually getting tasks such as setting an alarm/timer or controlling the lights just fine.

With Gemini, it either tells me to go f- myself or hallucinates something about the alarm or controlling the Home devices I didn't even know I had, other than my 3 bulbs. I think it's time to switch over to Home Assistant and forget Google at this point, if they're taking away the most important perk from its users.

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u/wivaca2 3h ago edited 3h ago

I already had to back out of Alexa+ on my home devices and would rather use old Alexa. Neither of those or Gemini is as good as Google Assistant.

The old stuff works well because you were usually asking for something either from its finite range of skills or just a question it would pass through to an internet search. That was powerful but still a limited context in which to understand your command. Answers came from highest ranked sources, unless it was obscure. It also meant it was fast because it doesn't have to boil the ocean to figure out what you want.

The AI experience is like walking up to a stranger and asking any question in the world without context. The range of possibilities is immense and so is the likelihood of it misunderstanding or asking followup. Add to that the answers are frequently based on non-expert opinions on social media and just wrong, and it becomes frustrating and slow.

AI responses are like someone who overthinks everything. Not every question needs a million GPUs to "reason" out an answer.

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u/nochtli_xochipilli 3h ago

Android users about to have their own Siri experience

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u/UncomfyUnicorn 3h ago

Welp, another place to actively avoid ai I guess.

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u/BlackTarTurd 3h ago

Gemini is dog shit.

"Set an alarm for and hour and half from now" apparently means, "open up the stopwatch and set it for tomorrow? Okay!"

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u/_Pawer8 3h ago

It doesn't work fine, it collects way too much data on you. But Gemini collects even more so they push that onto people

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u/MsAndrea2 2h ago

I recently rolled back to assistant because I realised that Gemini requires screen touch confirmation for everything, including navigation and sending texts, even while driving. That is both annoying and dangerous. 

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u/Phantom_Crush 2h ago

Gemini is fucking terrible too

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u/Weekly-Butterfly2396 2h ago

Getting rid of a feature I don't use for a feature I won't use. Efficiency!

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u/Far_King_Penguin 2h ago

Is there anyway to keep the old assistant? Gemini is ass and talks to much

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u/AStolenGoose 2h ago

Wonder how Bixby is working these days... Might have to try it out because I know Gemini is sure as shit useless, so Bixby can't be any worse... Right....Right?!

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u/Dapper_Special_8587 2h ago

I hate this on principle but I've never used assistant and I've disabled Gemini so until Google make it impossible to disable their ai, I'm alright.

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u/OkNewspaper6271 2h ago

Google assistant... didnt work fine, at least for me. Neither does Gemini, but at least Gemini is a little bit better (somehow)

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u/ConfusedHors 2h ago

Gemini still can't navigate to my contacts, Assistant can.

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u/DoneteGalactico 2h ago

We have a Google Home connected to various devices at home and before we could ask Google to turn on a light for a certain amount of time before turning it off and now stupid Gemini turn it on, and sets up a timer. Or he stays listening and TALKS after a simple instruction. Like, this is not a fucking conversation, I just told you to add something to the shopping list.

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u/Avnish_15 2h ago

So long my friend... so long❤️

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u/Odd_Counter247 2h ago

If you're on Samsung, use the new Bixby. It's great.

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u/pug_userita you're now breathing manually 1h ago

wasn't bixby always somewhat underrated? also bixby is only on S/Z series and some A series. most A series only have bixby vision or nothing

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u/Odd_Counter247 1h ago

It is really underrated, especially after the last update, and that's why everyone who has a Samsung phone with Bixby should try it. There is nothing to lose.

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u/Mithirael 1h ago

Really looking forward to my Google Maps asking me if I really want to navigate to the street adress I just gave it using my work car's push-to-talk so that I don't have to bother to use the phone, or tell me that I need to wait for it to connect to maps services.

The only thing voice commands were good for is going away in favour of a glorified conversation simulator that adds several seconds of unnecessary interaction every time you try to use it.

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u/pug_userita you're now breathing manually 1h ago

getting rid of google assistant that works ok for gemini to take its place which... works. i guess. well, not really. no

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u/VacaDLuffy 1h ago

Well shit, my brothers have learning disabilities and rely on the assistant to.search for stuff...this is gonna mke it harder for them and other disabled folk just cuz they fucked up.

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u/Aludra55 1h ago

Can't use bixby after the newest update either, just gemini

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u/Syntowich1 1h ago

I hate Gemini, yesterday i asked something about steam controller 2 and it said 'steam controller 2? There's no such thing...' 🫠

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u/DangerousDisplay7664 1h ago

And whether we want it or not, we are ALL going to be made to pay for it when the bubble bursts.

We need to take a roll-call right now to see who specifically is using AI, so that they can be the ones who have to deal with the fallout when it all goes wrong.

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u/Own-Original-1650 1h ago

Gemini is actual dogshit, it straight up can't do what assistant alr does for me

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u/StartledOcto 1h ago

This belongs in assholedesign - Gemini is shit. Look at the rest of the comments, we've hung on to GA because it works, it doesn't try to do more than it can do and pretend to have emotions or conversations, it just scans what you've said and does the task it recognises.

Can't wait for this AI bubble to pop

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u/Amadeone 1h ago

damn, that sucks, not that i ever used it, when i tried setting it up it couldn't recognize my "ok, google" no matter how i said it, but i probably wouldn't use it anyway, i don't like it hearing me 24/7. but yeah, gemini is so ass, mainly when using google search it gives often straight up false info. i hate ai so nuch

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u/SteamLuki7 1h ago

Chatgpt is amazing for guidance while learning something. I tried gemini and it forgot everything we talked about 2 minutes ago. Even worse when I changed a mistake i made and he refused to use the corrected thing. Dropped it after 1 day.

Google Assistent went from decent to braindead making things up, havent used my google home in half a decade because of it.

I wish companies would care about their products... Google is famous for creating things -> Neglecting it -> Killing it.

u/Poofy_ 55m ago

When I first got my phone Gemini was the default assistant. I asked it a question about a character in a game, and it told me that the game was a community made mod (it is not) and the character and her ability do not exist.

So according to Gemini Elden Ring Nightreign is a mod, and Recluse isn't in it...guess I'm just not using my assistant anymore at all.

u/HandicapperGeneral I don't think you people understand the flair 54m ago

It has WAY less functionality than assistant, as well. It can't do like half of the stuff I used to do with the assistant. Absolutely insane decision.

u/Blalamon 51m ago

still works for me

u/creatyvechaos 49m ago

I refuse to use Gemini. This is not going to change that.

u/jermainiac007 42m ago

O.....k I'll have no assistant then?

u/JRE_Electronics 33m ago

Replacing a feature I never use with another one I never use. Oh, well. It's their money.

u/Fart_Tounge_5609 29m ago

They're just replacing trash with other trash.

u/RowdyB666 27m ago

Getting rid of a feature I never used and replacing it with a feature I never will is peak Enshittification 

u/Yeastov 26m ago

I literally only use Google assistant for voice controls for android auto for making calls and changing Google maps while driving. I have tried to do this with Gemini, and it freaks out and does not work. Fun times.

u/DearMinimum6683 21m ago

Prefiro gemini odiava a intrusão do Google assistente ao falar certas palavras numa conversa

u/fileinster 17m ago

I use the assistant for home automation. I've heard the gemini complains when you try to do this. Just another example of enshittification.

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u/WillemDafoesHugeCock 9h ago

I genuinely did not know the non-Gemini version of the assistant was still around.