Use android and don’t have any of this enabled. That’s not to say I’m an anti-Ai purist. If I want to do a query I open an app and then close it when I’m done. This work flow just works so much better than having some sort of constant monitoring trying to be available when not needed. From Clippy to Gemini the idea of lurking pro-active Ai assistance has failed. This needs to be a pull function not a push.
I’m mostly an anti-AI purist.
It just gets too much wrong, too often, to really be used with any regularity for me. I do use it for a few technical things, but only if the added time required for validation still nets out well for my own efficiency.
Gemini is garbage, it’s always wrong.
Does anyone else notice AI just being referred to as “intelligence” in the media a lot now? Seems very sudden and very sus.
To save you all some time, this is the poll.
“Aren’t sold yet” from the title seems to imply the yellow section, not the red. Almost as if it’s going to be shoved down our throat no matter how we feel about it. Not that there’s been any doubt about that, but the article title is certainly telling about the bias of this article…
“Aren’t sold” would be the yellow plus the red. It doesn’t imply that they are still open to being sold on it.
Well yeah my limited experience is an android auto update replaced Assistant with Gemini, and now it can’t do anything new, only the same things much slower and with occasional really weird results. Totally worth all the lay offs and resources hogging.
I’m not going to embrace the spyware, thanks.
i dont want to use AI at all, anywhere, lol. google/samsung tried to force bixby down our throats and now they’re doing the same with Gemini. i dont want any part of it!!!
Ok Grandpa.
Ok Claude.
Wild that people just casually admit to outsourcing their thinking to a machine. I’d never willing post something that embarrassing. Butlerian Jihad Now.
Go back to candles and charcoal pencil on tree bark then. Take it all the way, you are against all forms of technological improvement while communicating online. Your hypocrisy is leaking.
Nah you just have innovation bias. Newer does not automatically mean better. That’s a wild take in 2026 since all of these companies have been marching towards enshitification for a decade.
Plenty of research showing that use of AI is just offloading your cognitive function. We know enough about neuroplasticity to clearly see this will impair those who use it for everything. It’s important to be challenged sometimes, the illusion of intelligence does nothing for us.
Your brain is leaking
That implies there’s something to leak.
I’d take a semi-aware grandpa any time over a completely tech-oblivious, doom-scrolling facebook-and-X-twat 😁
Go do some vibe coding ya neckbeard.
I prefer paying people to do that, but thanks.
So just a hypocrite then.
Trolls gonna troll. This here is what we call a false equivalency. Paying to have a person use their skills to complete a complex technical task with liability is far different from using an environment destroying, unreliable and insecure technology that carries no liability to do a worse job. One funds a person that will circulate that income, the other goes to a mega Corp where a billionaire will sleep on that money like an IRL Smaug.
You’re cute. Are you available as a plushie?
Yes
Brother, its okay not to be okay. Theres help for everyone out there.
Spotted the AI loving troglodyte
Elon? where?
Actually the bandwagon shifted and it’s you on the wrong side LMAO fucking lemmings.
You’re the lemming though. You’re the one who jumped on the bandwagon.
You fucking wish, loser
*grandma, you ugly bitch :)
It’s cool how they’ve broken assistant so badly that commands like “Call Mom” and “Set a timer for 20 minutes” no longer work for me the majority of the time.
“Set an alarm” is similarly totally fucked now. I used to use the Google assistant for simple stuff like that, but now it’s way easier to just open the clock app and set the reminder myself. Then they added a widget/shortcut to identify the song playing in the room, and now I don’t need the assistant at all.
It’s awesome that one of the best features of my TV, “Find my remote” has been completely broken. Paid extra for the fancy Bluetooth remote and everything, and now it’s completely worthless. Every time I ask, I get “Sorry, I’m not set up to do that” despite it being something that I’ve been doing the past 5 years without issue
I tried to set a reminder yesterday and is proceeded to search Google for “set a reminder for 9pm”. AI is making my phone less useful and it’s infuriating. Even worse, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. I guess it depends on geminis mood?
I used to use Google Home speaker for a grocery list.
It’s handy but like is that the reason I have an always listening device in my home? Is that all it can do?? That was before they removed features from the list commands. Jesus wept, good riddanceIf your assistant is alexa, you can disable alexa plus and it’ll go back to the original non-LLM backend.
I only use amazon products when I have no other options. I use google assistant, which was the only voice assistant I ever felt was even vaguely competent.
It used to be able to do some very useful stuff, like setting location-based reminders, but they’ve slowly been pulling functionality out and I’m sure I won’t have an option between it and gemini for much longer.
. The biggest of them involves how Gemini could bear the load of mundane or mindless tasks you do on your phone or other Android devices.
Like…what?
Exactly, we don’t need it for anything. I have zero tasks that I need automation for on my phone. In fact, I have typically zero tasks that I need to do on my phone at all.
You know what tasks I actually NEED to do? I need to mow my back yard, and I need to install gutters on my house. AI is not going to help any of that, so it’s useless for my needs. Meanwhile, it is wasting a fortune in energy and an environmental crisis worth of water.
But AI could totally tell you the top rated lawn mowers in stock in your area based on fake bought and paid for reviews to optimize your efficiency at mowing your lawn and increasing the capitalist profit margins of local stores that pay Google for increased foot traffic to their stores.
Set a 5 minute timer
That’s really it.
Wow. Is this possible nowadays? What a time to be alive. But can it be also a 10m timer? What about 1m? I’m skeptical…
It depends. 10 is okay. 15 is usually fine.
14 minutes has a 50/50 chance of being 40 minutes.
See? I knew it was half-assed. But maybe i can download an extra 14-min-timer-app?
Like stuff. Don’t worry about it. AI will take care of everything. Now shut up and let us announce 20 more datacenters in peace.
Stuff you say? That’s the thing I like most! I’m so exited. We need more data centers!
Browsing Lemmy 😁
So it could do that for me? That’d be awesome, wouldn’t even need my phone for that anymore!
“Gemini, do everything I would’ve done on this phone today, so I can do something else, like plowing your mom or do my taxes”.
I love the future!
Commercial for AI: Now you can order a cake while planning your child’s birthday and sending an email to your boss while printing the tickets for your trip to Italy!
My unemployed ass, sitting around in boxers eating cereal at 10PM watching cartoons from the 90’s: Sweet, this is gonna change my life!
Lol. It sure will change all our lifes. Maybe just not the way we expect it…
All this chatgpt and Gemini etc shit is a front to get government surveillance Ai data centers built.
None of this is about us, it’s about New government and transitioning to a modern digital age of profiling, surveillance, and control.
We are being played out.
It’s like nuclear arms race for the future control of the world.
God is dead. Universe is dead. We are slaves already and our last thread of connection to natural humanity and essence is going to be taken.
And everyone that complains about it helped fund it for decades buying all the stupid shit that they never needed to entertain themselves instead of seeking truth.
Even the debates against chatgpt etc are a distraction… They are building the surveillance state while everyone complains… Because they know that’s how psychology works.
I wouldn’t doubt it if some of the healthcare info hacks happening are sponsored and that data is being used to beta their new profiling. Kind of like how they torrented for llm.
Its my computer device. Only I should have say on what shit is installed on it and runs on it.
Which is exactly why there’s also an effort to kill home computer ownership. Capitalists hate all the pesky competition they have to compete with that makes their enshitified products look like shit.
If we put aside the environmental damage and the capitalist aspects of LLMs, I fail to see why I should change the way I use my devices to let some hallucinating algorithm do stuff. The only times I use it is when I’m really stumped coming up with relevant search results, and even then there’s more than 50% chance that it’s not gonna achieve some break through.
I don’t want Gemini. I want Google to Keep Android Open.
I hate to say it but most the time I use chatgpt is for saving on something that frustrates me so much. Search something, let’s say… What temperature is chicken good to eat at, the first few articles will be a life story and why undercooking it is bad and about 800 words later is your answer. So frustrating.
The biggest use case for Gemini is the enshittification of Google Search.
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?
But but but that’s not going to turn any billionaires into trillionaires, now is it? Honestly.
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.
Go grapheneOS! The best thing to do with a damn pixel. No more battling with google.
I know, but I use tap-to-pay with NFC for like 10 years now and could not live without it :-/ I have no more wallet.
Else I would use any phone with a custom ROM, I agree…
I would think it would still work with the sandboxed google installed. Not tried though but it would still be vastly better, as Google’s severely castrated in their sandbox 😁 Worth a shot if you hate the rest.
