Then cancel I guess.
They’re also bundling AI with their most expensive tiers. More than likely logging 100% of that revenue towards AI to justify this whole boondoggle.
Cancel sounds great! 👌
Google wants to replace most of its features with gemini powered tools. This is just the beginning. They own youtube and of course they’re starting to train their models on that too, they have a deal with reddit so they’re also turning all known internet forums into a huge database.
It’s so weird because Gemini is one of the dumbest of these bots out there.
Because it’s training on reddit users.
Are you saying that reddit users are the dumbest users out there?
I was implying it yes
Lol nice
They’re all very “dumb” in soooo many ways
Gemini will suck I believe when used via certain methods.* Going direct to their most expensive model via API produces competitive results,
but this was NOT the case in 2024.
*Surprising they’re OK with brand/product dilution but I guess the alternative is losing even more money as they burn more energy and tax more servers
It was six months ago but not anymore
Still fucking garbage lol.
Once the feedback loop really kicks off then we’ll see it turn to shit faster than all the rest.
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Weirdly its good in image/video analysis in my testing???
but it doesnt filter properly and easy to bypass when using the APIThey already wrote they trained it on YouTube!
They’ve been pushing the auto dubbing feature super hard lately. Which isn’t exactly the same thing but a bet they are lumping it in with other AI stuff.
Time to cancel then.
Why do they all act like AI is the holy grail ?? Phone update: here you go, AI. New app: here you go. AI. Websites: here you go. AI.
I’ve tried it, but AI sucks. All tech questions give non-working answers. Everything else, the AI always agree with you.
They’re using us to train it and offloading the costs of training it to us. This isn’t for us or customer service or whatever, they want to use their AIs to further develop them is all
Very Plausible
A buddy works at Microsoft. This is exactly what they’re doing.
Because AI is a solution in search of a problem. The current plan is to just put it in everything and hope one of them is better as a result. It’s not the worst plan, because eventually some combination of things is likely to be useful, but it means a lot of useless shit will be slapped together. Of course it’s also far from a great plan, because it means a lot of useless shit will e slapped together.
They’ve invested way too much to admit it’s almost totally useless, and only useful in niche app, using sketchy conditions (training material IP…) and under tight control.
So they engage into heavy marketing and comms ops to convince the world that “AI” (very vague term BTW, what they offer right now should rather be called systems resulting from stochastic learning, credit for that naming suggestion is not on me) was a revolution and whoever doesn’t get on board will be left behind in the dust.
It worked really well: corporate world is embracing the “AI everywhere” idea.
So now, everyone is competing to provide “the best AI assistant”. And believe it or not: some people do ask for it!
Google became prime enshitification too. You may only degoogle.
I degoogled earlier this year, and it has been amazing. Dont miss it at all.
I’d very much like to, but so far I haven’t found anything which beats Google’s free Non-profit plan. Our small association uses that, which basically gives access to everything Google has to offer: amongst others e-mail under your own domain, shared storage through Drive, a workable office suite, access to Google Meet and all that with central user management.
As crappy as Google may be, when money is an issue that’s a deal that’s hard to ignore. 😞
Dont use subscription services.
This does not work for nearly 100% of people. Fucking health insurance is a subscription. Guess a lot of Americans don’t have them, though.
Pay for services that respect their users
FTFY
Proton mail, mullvad, bitwarden to name a few
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Do you use a privacy-respecting frontend/mirror for YouTube or simply accept most things won’t be on Nebula/wherever and reclaim that time to do something else?
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Wtf is google offering that you’re paying for anyway? advertising?
Google Workspace (GMail, Meet, Calendar Drive, Docs, Sheets, …) is a popular alternative to MS365 among companies.
🤢
Things change.
Ten years ago I joined a newly formed small company. They were all-in on the google suite for everything, and it was great. Gmail, docs, meet, all joined up really well and fully cloud so everyone could work just as easily from home as in the office, with no on-prem hardware or VPNs or anything. It made the work so productive.
But of course enshittification happens, corps get evil, and everything goes down the toilet.
These days I am degoogling as much as possible and would never choose g-suite again, either personally or for business, but 10 years ago for that small business it was a godsend.
It’s not like 365 is so great anyway
when AI came around, they realized ai is costing too much, so they have to force it on customers to make them pay off thier debt.
Storage on google drive comes to mind. Not that I pay for it, but I know it’s something others do.
It was always the case that AI would be free or cheap to begin with, and it was always the case that prices will have to rise to cover their costs.
The way now is to cancel subscriptions. Show the companies pushing AI that there is no money to be made in it. Find another service that fits your needs, your ethical minimum, and your budget.
Cancel Google services, even the free ones, and find an alternative you truly like.
The correct and only option is to cancel your plan. Fuck google.
Adobe is doing this too and unless their AI is going to fix the legacy bugs the company clearly doesn’t care enough to fix then it’s not good enough to cost more.
Affinity
GIMPEtc.
Oh don’t even get me started. I know so many softwares and their limitations and if I could cut Adobe completely out of my workflow I wouldn’t wait another second.
Ai is suppose to make Everything more efficient except all I see is it driving costs up by an insane degree.
Lots of victim-blaming in these comments
Nobody is forcing them to use Google services. And under capitalism voting with our wallets is all we got.
Nobody is forcing them to use Google services.
If you’re a small business with no IT budget, your options are pretty limited.
You can choose from 2 or 3 horrible companies that actually integrate with your stuff out-of-the-box, or you can do a bunch of manual work that none of your competitors are doing.
For a lot of companies, it’s not ignorance or carelessness, but a sober understanding that they’ll have to “render unto Caesar” before they can move on.
