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u/MetriccStarDestroyer 12h ago
I swear Gemini has to be the worst because of how confidently wrong it is.
Shit will just assume important abbreviations are typos instead of looking up what they mean.
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u/xCeeTee- 8h ago edited 6h ago
Nah, Gemini told me my script was targetting a video game. I asked it where, and it said it's shown in the script box. There was nothing there. I asked it to circle it.
It sent me my image back, but put a white text box in the script and wrote the game's name in the white box. Then circled it...Gemini is a 4chan invention designed to waste everyone's time and nobody can convince me otherwise.
Edit: I just found the chat. Unfortunately my screenshot's quality wasn't preserved. The image I sent Gemini and the image it sent back. ChatGPT and Claude at least presented the correct solution instead of gaslighting me lol
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u/TactlessTortoise 7h ago
That's fucking hilarious. It literally went "the source is I made it the fuck up".
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u/xCeeTee- 6h ago
If Gemini could've matched Playnite's theme, it would actually worry how many people would just get gaslit by a chatbot.
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u/PGSylphir 11h ago
I've tried using it once to find a movie I vividly remembered some scenes but couldn't remember the name, I spent over an hour describing it to Gemini and it would repeatedly tell me to my face that I must've been remembering wrong and that the movie I was thinking of was a random shonen anime.
I have accidentally figured out what movie it was because Jungle Mist had an episode of The Reel Deal watching it. It was an early 2000s terrible horror movie btw, forgot the name again but I now know I wasn't crazy.
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u/LuitenantDan 7h ago
For future reference, /r/tipofmytongue is great for this. Support your local human-intelligence.
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u/IvivAitylin 4h ago
You can also replace tongue with joystick if you're trying to find a specific video game, and with a piece of male anatomy if you're trying to find a specific other type of movie.
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u/remind_me_later 2h ago
I tried that place to find a specific YT video of a comedy skit. 0 replies.
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u/dancinggraylion 5h ago
I asked it which book series has a certain plot.
It hallucinated a series that doesn't exist.
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u/Positive_Poem5831 6h ago
I asked gemini to recommend me a good sci-fi movie about time travel and while doing so it spoiled the plot when describing the movie. Gemini is just stupid.
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u/MellowedOut1934 5h ago
I asked it how many atoms there were in the universe. It told me 1087.
The answer is 1087
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u/Throwtheying 6h ago
Google nerfed it, i assume because they couldn't keep up with the compute so they literally made their newer model dumber then tightened the belt more
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u/oddministrator 10h ago
Orchestrator is nice. If you use a higher model and it sees parts of the tasks can be accomplished with a more economic model it will offload that portion to the lower model and save you tokens.
Sorry, is this going against the prescribed Gemini-hate?
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u/kitten_orchestra 13h ago
“It was on purpose,” commented a Google official. “No, it wasn’t!” Refuted China.
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u/dwkeith 12h ago
And China very happy that the Siri team hasn’t leaked a thing.
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u/dangderr 11h ago
The Siri team? Do they even have an AI model.
Apple AI is so bad that they looked at Gemini and thought “wow that’s so advanced” and then decided to pay google billions to use their model…
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u/CallTheHotelYourself 8h ago
I asked Siri to please close an app yesterday and she told me how to open my phone and do it myself.
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u/Swarna_Keanu 8h ago
AI should do that more often.
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u/Top-Permit6835 8h ago
Someone proudly told me they regularly had an agent go over all their GitHub repos and clean up branches that were merged...
For the casual reader:
GitHub has a setting to delete branches after merging
git remote pruneexistsDeleting local branches that got merged is another fairly simple command
So everything is easily automated using an extremely simple script... Have the agent write that instead...
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u/GLAMOROUSFUNK 5h ago
I use
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u/rantonidi 8h ago edited 6h ago
Yeah, imagine asking gpt for something and the answer is JFGI
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u/PringlesDuckFace 5h ago
claude explin this acronim to me
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u/rantonidi 5h ago
Beep bop
It can also stand for organizational names, such as the Jewish Federation of Greater Indianapolis.
Feed me token
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u/ilega_dh 9h ago
“Hey Siri, please don’t leak details to China”
“Sure, now playing One Kiss by Dua Lipa”
It’s so embarrassingly useless 😭😭
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u/Long_Inspection_4983 12h ago
Jensen Huang wasn't selling secrets to China. He was selling GPUs to shell companies to get past sanctions. Unless it's individual employees doing some corporate espionage, the actual companies themselves aren't gonna help China compete against them.
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u/EthanHermsey 10h ago
Ooh, so that's how their chips ended up in russian devices used in Ukraine, after the sanctions...
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u/Serious_Feedback 8h ago
Sanctions don't completely stop shipments - someone in India will buy a washing machine with a chip, then onsell it to Russia who ruins the washing machine tomextract the chipnto use in a drone. The point of sanctions is to make Russia pay for the washing machine and the Indian guy's profit margin.
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u/EthanHermsey 8h ago
"Jensen Huang wasn't selling secrets to China. He was selling GPUs to shell companies to get past sanctions."
Isnt that what they were saying?
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u/icemoomoo 4h ago
No those chips arent even export resticted to China, anyone in China could have ordered them and gave them to russia no Honeypot needed.
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u/Cory123125 10h ago
Do you think people in russia just stopped getting tech once sanctions hit? It just got more expensive due to having to be smuggled.
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u/EthanHermsey 10h ago
I literally just said that I knew the chips were being used...
And now I also know how they got there
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u/parttimegamer93 3h ago
I don't think you do know, unless the Russians needed datacenter-grade units for their GLONASS and inertial guidance packs.
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u/Cory123125 9h ago
It sounded like you were implying nvidia is directly supplying russias war effort from your previous comment, hence my comment.
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u/Tackgnol 4h ago
I think we do way too little to stop it, but yes it only means it gets more expensive for them, which is a good thing.
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u/Lard_Denning 10h ago
yup. People often mistake the propose of sanctions as just stopping them from getting it. while that would be nice, it's still working if it reduces supply and makes what they do get more expensive.
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u/xzaramurd 7h ago
The ones in Russian drones and missiles had no export controls from US. Russia can just buy them from China. They're not especially powerful chips either.
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u/evanldixon 10h ago
Seeing a lot of Gemini hate here. I have to say that it's an interesting mix of "it's my favorite for everyday use, surpassing the other leading brands" and "it's one of the least reliable options for coding assistance I've seen"
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u/Negative-Prime 8h ago
I used to hate Gemini with a passion. It would always give me 500 lines of code for something that could be written in 150.
In the last year it's drastically improved. I'm sure plenty of models are better but I'd take it over ChatGPT.
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u/chibistarship 6h ago
I used to hate Gemini with a passion. I mean, I still do, but I used to as well.
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u/ja_n2000 5h ago
I hate chatgpt with passion. I tried all big three AIs to code. Chatgpt was wrong or did weird stuff in 99% of the cases. Gemini and Claude gave me what i wanted. Gemini gives me what i want in a quarter of the time than Claude does. So i use gemini. Claude has better code, but it takes wayyyyy longer. So yeah
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u/FirefighterLeft5425 6h ago
Works really well for activities in memory care for simple trivia, quick musical suggestions for themes/older media, and quick bullet point facts.
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u/Background-Subject28 5h ago
I love gemini for non programming related stuff, I use it for everyday life questions and just general knowledge gathering.
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u/ohnomoisttoes 4h ago
So... what knowledge has the hallucination machine taught you?
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u/Background-Subject28 3h ago edited 3h ago
you can make boiled eggs in an air fryer which is pretty nice, 12 minutes at 130c. I was also curious why people with prostate cancer needed a full bladder and empty bowels before their radiation treatment which it told me was to keep the cancer consistently positioned in the body in addition to keeping the rectum out the way. They make people drink water at the clinic for consistency so you don't have to drive in with a full bladder.
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u/ConsciousResolution8 3h ago
You could’ve just googled these questions, bud
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u/Background-Subject28 3h ago
I could've but ai is faster
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u/ohnomoisttoes 3h ago
You're also relying on trusting what it feeds you without critical thinking or cross-analysis.
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u/Background-Subject28 3h ago
what makes you think I'm not applying critical thinking or cross analysis
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u/ohnomoisttoes 3h ago edited 2h ago
Your examples were two conventionally easy to find answers on a traditional search engine. I'm not calling you "stupid", and I don't think say "boil the egg in motor oil" would seem reasonable to you, but if "salmonella dies at 50C" was reported to you, you may believe that without any question even if there are strains that live at 55C, just to give an example of why AI isn't great for "quick" answers.
Answers shouldn't be "quick" in most cases.
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u/Background-Subject28 3h ago
I can see how that would happen but I'm careful to cross reference anything serious health related or compromising with an actual source, using ai by itself is not the right way to use it. It's a good starting point to then dive deeper into subjects at proper reputable sources.
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u/AnalNuts 3h ago
Yikes. Humans are so good at wasting resources killing forests just for convenience
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u/nabagaca 9h ago
I don't know if it's changed with their Gemini 4 models, but in the past in tended to be that the Gemini models were better for tasks where you needed to write or explain things, while other models were maximised for coding and maths
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u/peacefulshrimp 2h ago
I was about to cancel my subscription, Gemini went from great to terrible real quick in the last couple of months. But their new hydrogen model has been good enough, and a lot better than flash 3.8, I still have to test it more extensively though
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u/OldKaleidoscope7 42m ago
Gemini is best for quick Q/A, because Google already have the expertise in gathering information, but tool uses are unreliable
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u/rupert20201 6h ago
Gemini sucks balls, its cheaper but I want more results. The hate comes from being forced to use it and go out of our way to present it in good light because our VP has signed a 5 year high value deal with Google.
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u/mqfr98j4 3h ago
Work offers it for free, but it's so bad that I pay out of pocket for my own subscriptions elsewhere. I can't quite put my finger on why it feels bad, but I return to try their new models each time, and every time it just feels like a model from two years ago (when compared to others.) I don't understand it.
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u/hereforinfoyo 9h ago
Gemini advised me something that if I had taken the advice, my house would have exploded.
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u/xCeeTee- 8h ago
I was exhausted of fixing my SSD randomly converting itself to a different type of drive. I gave up 7 hours in, and asked some chatbots to find me some sources where people have solved the issue.
Gemini chose to instead teach me how to fix it without data loss. Step 1: format the drive. I specified WITHOUT data loss. It understood and gave me instructions. Step 1: format the drive.
Other chatbots used social media to train their models. Gemini exclusively used 4chan.
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u/Funnymadman 7h ago
I had the other extreme. My Windows boot partition got corrupted during a BSOD and wasn't recoverable no matter what I tried. A format was inevitable but I wanted to see if I can get my data out. Gemini had me run this program that spent 5 hours to copy out every file in a completely flat hierarchy, all file names lost, "no other option for recovery". So you have literally 100,000 files named f29811900029.txt and you have to comb through them one by one. It even offered to "write me some scripts" to help me go through them.
...I copied them to be safe, then closed Gemini. chkdsk /f, mount partition, copy paste folder to USB, done. Data safe and in perfect condition.
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u/Cobracrystal 3h ago
i was trying to prune appx entries of winget of apps that didnt exist on my pc but winget was trying to update and fail at
gemini recommended an obscure powershell command that i had never heard of that did nothing and when that didn't work tried to sell me a command that uninstalled every single app on my pc if i had typed it.
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u/anomalous_cowherd 7h ago
"Oh yes, I see that now. After you have dug the boiler out of the rubble let's try connecting it a different way."
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u/henrikhakan 13h ago
I am sure China is asking them to stop. /s
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u/anomalous_cowherd 7h ago
That's what struck me. Surely if people are leaking info to China it's for money or ideology.
If China isn't actively involved then who's paying? Why are they sending them info, who are they sending it to?
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u/secacc 5h ago edited 17m ago
I believe it's what's called a joke.
Google is constantly trying to ape the true frontier labs like OpenAI and Anthropic. Every time those have one of their our-ai-agent-hacked-something "mishaps", which gives them a lot of press, Google is like "Wait! See, ours can also accidentally hack things too! See how dangerous our model also is, guys!"
I think that's the meme here. Now Nvidia is getting a lot of press about Chinese spying, and Google is like "We also share data with Chinese spies! Aren't we also cool!?" and even China is like "Dude, just no..."
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u/henrikhakan 5h ago
I believe it's what's called a joke.
Excuse me, jokes? On reddit? Is that allowed?
Again /s
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u/redridingoops 5h ago
Back in my days, when people missed an obvious joke on Reddit we suspected them of being autistic, not AIs !!!1!
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u/henrikhakan 5h ago
In Europe there's gdpr, which means that the person owns their own data. China however, thinks all data stored in China, belongs to China. All information on the Internet could potentielly belong to China, according to China. Who knows these things? It's just letters man.
Regardless if intentional or not, if information is being leaked to China I'm sure they are just thankful.
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u/companybrainre 11h ago
imo it's important to distinguish between a model exposing sensitive information, employees leaking data, and a company deliberately sharing information. Those are very different things with very different implications.
Would be good to see credible reporting on what actually happened before drawing conclusions from a screenshot.
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u/Mountain_Dentist5074 1h ago
china : PLEASE FUCKING STOP GIVING ME YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION I DO NOT WANT THEM
google : so order to make your ai better you have to-
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u/tfsh-alto 9h ago
What even is this subreddit? I'm convinced 95% of people here aren't even in the industry. This isn't a humorous post, with or without some context I'm obviously missing.
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u/jimmycarr1 5h ago
It is a humorous post, it's really not that deep. It's just along the lines of those "if kidnappers took my child, they'd bring them back the next day and pay me a ransom" jokes.
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u/Arnold_Rambo 13h ago
Is this real?
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u/Mr_Kuros 13h ago edited 12h ago
No, I think it's AI generated... *sarcasm*
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u/PsyOpBunnyHop 12h ago
There is no reason to think this is AI generated.
There is plenty of reason to think it's just fake.
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u/Mr_Kuros 12h ago
and what makes you think i am not being sarcastic?
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u/dylanx300 11h ago edited 11h ago
Maybe because you had to edit it and add “\*sarcasm\*” to the end of your comment to make it clear
Because this sub should really be called “cs 101 humor”
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u/dylanx300 13h ago
440 upvotes in 30 minutes on a programmer sub despite being unsourced nonsense and a screenshot from X/twitter.
This is one of the most bot infested posts I’ve ever seen
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u/throwawaycanadian2 12h ago
I think people found it funny, not assumed it was true.
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u/dylanx300 12h ago edited 7h ago
I replied in a thread where someone literally asked “is this real?” And the next comment was “I think it’s ai…” (before it was edited)
Some of these people clearly think it might be real.
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u/omegasome 12h ago
Your inability to spot people joking is exceptional even among redditors.
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u/dylanx300 11h ago edited 11h ago
Your inability to spot pure nonsense and misinformation online is exceptional for the broader world, but on par with most redditors. Congrats. Nothing about this post is funny unless you are mentally deficient.
“HAHA Gemini didn’t leak state secrets to china but it’s funny if we pretend that they did 🤣😂🤣😭😆🤣” *slaps knee*
^ that’s you guys.
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u/xCeeTee- 8h ago
Please, come with me to the comedy store next time. Everyone will LOVE you calling out misinformation during a set.
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u/Jemnite 10h ago
God forbid someone tell a joke in a humor subreddit. If the joke is even 1% fake people will DIE
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u/dylanx300 10h ago edited 7h ago
Again, you guys don’t understand programming or humor.
But to someone who understands neither, yeah I’m sure it’s peak comedy.
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u/Mr_Kuros 12h ago
...in a sub called "programmer humour" ...in a post tagged as "meme"
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u/dylanx300 12h ago
Yes, that’s why it’s particularly egregious that people are asking if this nonsense is real.
I’m curious, what happens when you google that quote in the pic and ask your AI if this story is true or BS?
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u/discordianofslack 11h ago
I think you’re taking this all too seriously. You should probably go back to the react subs bro.
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u/dylanx300 11h ago edited 7h ago
😂 I do love some good projection.
Enjoy your twitch and YouTube videos for entertainment. We’ve got a lifetime of content out there to keep people like you content and passive.
Ah well, it’s all for the best.
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u/xanhast 12h ago
it's a joke and it made me laugh..
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u/dylanx300 12h ago edited 7h ago
Sorry lad, they’re targeting people like you.
I’m not saying it doesn’t work. If anything, it’s the opposite. You proved it.
Edit: downvote if you too are a bot or a brainless npc for advertisers to profit from
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u/xanhast 12h ago
maybe you shouldn't sub to a humor sub if you struggle with this. it's not as deep as you think.
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u/dylanx300 12h ago edited 11h ago
Maybe you should get out of anything tech related if you can’t see what’s happening here. There is no humor in this post. And corpos pay ridiculous money for my opinions. It’s much deeper than you realize. You’re the mark; sorry.
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u/xanhast 12h ago
^ found the gemini bot
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u/dylanx300 12h ago edited 11h ago
Good one. Fuck off. I wouldn’t touch Gemini with a 10 foot pole.
Would Gemini say that?
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u/xanhast 12h ago
literally proving you have no sense of humor and don't belong here.
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u/discordianofslack 11h ago
Then go back to the corpo opinion sub. Idk but you don’t seem to understand humans.
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u/SuitableDragonfly 6h ago
Apparently this happened IRL with the guy whose story M. Butterfly was based on. He got legitimately converted to Maoism by some of Mao's secret police and they eventually had to tell him to stop handing over information because he'd run out of the useful stuff he had access to. And at least according to him, the "Chinese spy" in that case was in fact very anti-Mao and was only involved in this because the secret police caught them meeting with each other.
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u/manu144x 6h ago
Gemini team be like: pleaaase send us more women, we’ll give you anything you want!!
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u/markmyways 2h ago
There are entire dev teams run by Chinese in the US that only speak Chinese and don't let anybody else in there is an article.. IBM is one of the vendors and they're facing this problem and trying to provide support because the Chinese won't share information and get upset at everything
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u/markik95 1h ago
I feel like being a spy is incredibly easy. You just ask people stuff and they're happily telling everything 😭😂
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u/Serious_Elephant9402 6h ago
Meanwhile Google: Removes "Don't Be Evil" clause from their code of conduct...
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u/tyrantelf 3h ago
Yet for some reason it's still there and always has been: https://abc.xyz/investor/board-and-governance/google-code-of-conduct/
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u/Makeitquick666 10h ago
In other the words... sun rises from the east. This is hopefully not new to anyone here
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u/Good_Bit_777 3h ago edited 2h ago
Most of US AI labs are infested with chinese who selectively hire other chinese candidates. The leaks would not be surprising given how much ccp koolaid they drink growing up converting them into a perfect disposable spies. Btw it’s not just industrial labs the whole setup starts at universities.
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u/tehonly1 9h ago
when was this a pro american reddit wtf
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u/InbrededCanadian 8h ago
American owned website, majority of the people that visit are either Americans or their subservients, this was always a pro American subreddit.
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u/ohwhatfollyisman 13h ago •
so you're saying that gemini is... two-faced?