Original story title: "Gemini is replacing Google Assistant on Pixel phones, and it’s a train wreck"

  • Rojo27 [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    They've done it, they've really done it. They innovated a way to annoy people even morecongratulations

  • batsforpeace [any, any]
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    3 months ago

    One new feature of Gemini is a mode called “Gemini Live,” which allows for back-and-forth conversation and requires a $20 per month Google One AI Premium subscription.

    Spider-Jerusalem

  • Taster_Of_Treats [none/use name]
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    3 months ago

    Its so fucked that you have to give up the live translation feature to get the new shit. I use that all the time with relatives that don't speak English.

  • Feinsteins_Ghost [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    enshittifying their assistant until is as useless as Siri.

    I switched from google to apple a few years ago and one of the things I had a hard time giving up was the voice assistant. I a spend a lot of time on the road locally for service work and I leaned pretty heavily on voice assistant for texting, calling, directions, scheduling appts etc. It wasn’t the best, but it worked for what I need.

    Now I have to repeat instructions, only to be told ‘I can’t do that’ or ‘I can’t do that while driving’ or some other bullshit. I spend more time cursing at Siri than getting anything useful from it. Compared to Siri, Google Assitant was wonderful.

    At least now it’ll suck equally.

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    enshittification intensifies, now with a subscription model and THE CLOOOOOOUD

  • GladimirLenin [comrade/them, he/him]
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    3 months ago

    I kept getting a prompt on my phone to change to Gemini from google assistant, after repeatedly telling it to fuck off it seems to have disappeared. for now.