Gemini AI

The 786 user comments (predominantly from HackerNews) reveal deep skepticism about Google's Gemini across several dimensions. Privacy is the dominant concern: multiple users report that Gemini auto-triggers on documents in Google Drive after pressing the Gemini button once, with no easy way to revert. One user notes the issue is 'localized to Google Drive' where PDFs 'subsequently automatically trigger Google Gemini for all future files.' Trust in Google's data handling is low — users explicitly compare Google unfavorably to ProtonDrive and Apple for encryption, stating 'Google not going quite far enough with privacy and data access' and that 'they talk about it but it's never quite far enough to avoid their own services accessing data.' Separately, users question whether Google's Gemini demos are authentic, referencing a well-known industry pattern of 'fake' demos: 'They are so commonly fake that it is just an accepted industry trope.' Some users defend Google's approach vs. OpenAI/Microsoft, noting Google lacks 'customer noncompete clauses' that competitors enforce. Technical users want more architectural transparency on 'native multimodal' claims. Notably, several commenters describe using ChatGPT (not Gemini) for practical tasks — calorie counting, word-finding, recipe math — suggesting Gemini has not displaced ChatGPT as the default tool. Broader sentiment treats Gemini as a corporate play to 'pacify shareholders' rather than a product breakthrough.

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