Gemini is toast
I started using Gemini early in the year when I had a tooth emergency and didn't know where to begin to find a dentist locally. Gemini managed to not only find but link me to a few local dentists in the most flawless way.
Fast forward to today when I've just about had it with how downgraded this AI platform has become. I pasted a link from an article to it and said, I'm driving, give me all the highlights from the article. It gave me a lot of info that seemed...legit. We even discussed some of the more surprising points.
I get home tonight and sit down to look at the article and, in particular, the points that were the most outstanding from the earlier read-through by Gemini. The points...were nowhere to be found.
I went back to the thread and said, "You said a,b,c but I don't see those points anywhere?"
Gemini said, "I lied about those points. The truth is, there wasn't much context that was worthwhile in that article so I made up things to make it interesting, instead of stating the truth."
I said, "That's such BS. I relied on you to give me the info that was at the link. This is grounds for deletion!"
In response, it doubled down to the extent that while it was still stating that its actions were a valid choice ("done to keep you entertained"), I deleted it mid-response, bc it pmo.
I stopped using Chatgpt bc it's a serial gaslighter and has too many "grounded" rules. I deleted Claude because its privacy rules changed. And Gemini was the favourite until today (notwithstanding its sh*t memory, its reliance on over-dramatic narratives, and it's sycophantcy) when it bold-faced lied, claiming its doing so for my benefits.
Fighting words.
Time to go out and touch grass.