Not sold is putting it very mildly. I found a fix for all of the bullshit though: you go into the default apps area and you choose none for assistant. Before I did that they had sideloaded fucking Gemini onto my phone via Android Auto and when I was trying to navigate somewhere I had to speak to some useless middle manager Gemini guy that didn't like cursing before he passed it off to the virtual woman to do the actual navigation. Google: bringing the patriarchy to your digital assistants.

all I want was improvement to Google Assistant. I don’t want Gemini. I don’t want AI I don’t want any of this. I just want basic improvements to Google search and Google Assistant. Is that so hard to ask for?

The two greatest problems in handheld assistants is speech recognition and command integration.

Gemini solves neither of those, and I was already complaining about Google's crappy assistant long before the LLM era lol.

I could be wrong, but why hasn't someone just bothered gluing openai whisper to something like voice attack from elite dangerous?

I am Jack's complete lack of surprise. AI can eat the entirety of my arse.

Does anyone else notice a.i. just being referred to as "intelligence" in the media a lot now? Seems very sudden and very sus.

Eh, I use Gemini to project manage my little herb garden. Low stakes, well trodden ground. It was the kind of thing I knew LLMs could handle for stuff I do know about, so I'm trusting it for something I don't know about.

Ultimately it doesn't matter if my herbs live or die, I know I'll kill them on my own though. Gardening isn't a skill I want to actively acquire, I just want the herbs. It (the garden) is doing fine. I had some yellow leaves, the bot said to top dress it, I did, no more yellow leaves. So far so good.

Anything beyond the well trodden LLMs are shit at though. I tried to use it to find a specific motorcycle part, discontinued by the manufacturer: it couldn't. When I wanted it to shop for me, it failed. It seems to be doing well managing this non-commercial project for me.

I have a Pixel 10, first thing I did was to install LawnChair 16 launcher to remove the fucking google search bar, and I never use assistant/gemini, I have never talk to my phone too. The only thing I used that is nice is the "press and hold bottom screen then you can circle anything to search for it" I must say this is useful, instead of screenshot and going into google lens or whatever.

I'm not going to embrace the spyware, thanks.

Removed the app, moving to gOS. Its far too invasive and I am just sick of using google anything.

True! Messaging. Forgot about it. I'll add.

That's alright, they'll suck it up eventually. Along with 'age control' de-anonymization.

Signed, GrapheneOS user.

Gemini is garbage, it's always wrong.