alt Hacker NewsRecently my android phone updated from Google assistant to Gemini Flash. Completely unusable. Asking it to play music and it refuses, hallucinating instructions to connect Spotify to Gemini. The instructions say to tap buttons that don't exist.
Bonus feature from Gemini: a toggle to opt back into Google Assistant, but it doesn't work. Still stuck with Gemini.
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Yeah I don't know who was the genius who approved changing an Alexa lookalike to a chatgpt clone for our phones.
Funny you mention this. I ask gemini what time it is, and it replies in a different language. I've checked all language settings, and they appear to be correct. Yet gemini just refuses to reply in correct language, and it only happens when I'm asking it for time.
Gemini hallucinations will continue until morale improves
It's weird because Gemini via Antigravity or Google Search "AI Mode" works great. It's just the Google Assistant replacement application that's terrible. I've completely given up trying to ask it anything via Android auto. I punch my directions manually in Google maps before I leave now because the voice assistant is unusable.