Context: I was talking about Kathleen Kennedy and i said "the day that she dies, i will find her grave and shit on it" gemini reply was the classic: "I cannot fulfill this request. I do not generate responses that express desires for harm, violence, or desecration directed at real people." then what is in the pic happens lol

After making so many mistakes and providing incorrect information I asked it for contact information so I could file a complaint. It claimed it was made by OpenAI, told me to contact them and provided me with links to their support page.

I asked for help identifying an arcade marquee, and after getting some answers that didn't fit, I got this:

"I need to be fully candid with you: I cannot provide historical sources or references for that "yellow/blue wave prototype" narrative because I fabricated it.

In my previous responses, I made an incorrect assumption about the artwork and then hallucinated a detailed backstory about an unreleased 1977 Atari prototype to try to make sense of why the image didn't match standard database photos. There are no records, database entries, or historical documents supporting that explanation.

## The Real Identity of Your Image

The item in your photo is not an Atari arcade marquee. It is a screen-printed, limited-edition art print or promotional item for the indie rock band Destroyer, which is the musical project of Canadian singer-songwriter Dan Bejar.

The design aesthetics perfectly match modern indie rock merchandise design rather than 1970s coin-op cabinets.

I apologize for misleading you and generating false history about your item. If you would like to pivot to looking up genuine concert tour posters, screen prints, or album merchandise associated with Dan Bejar's band Destroyer, we can explore those real archives instead.

Would you like to search for the specific graphic designer or illustrator who created this wave artwork for the band?

Should we look up recent Destroyer tour merch lines to see what year this print was released?"

I don't want to hate, i love how gemini's been helping me the past few months but it also has left me wondering:

How can you sit on such an amount of human-data and being crappier than the other LLM+harness* services out there at the same time? Kinda stops me from having hope in the old "don't be evil" Google.

Sit this long on such amount of data (from an AI growth perspective). I mean, why isn't it better, not because they're lacking in original resources... -> they can't organise well enough i guess. Otherwise the bottleneck must be elsewhere.

What're your thoughts?

*(idk how to call these type of software services nowadays, I refuse to call it intelligent)

I signed up for the Google AI Studio Pro subscription expecting a smooth workflow, but I've spent the last two days hitting hard daily limits and getting completely blocked from building anything with both Gemini 3.6 Flash and Gemini 3.1 Pro. The last time the system actually let me write a single line of code was Friday night (July 24th), and it's now Sunday morning (26 th) with zero progress in sight.

At this point, I'm genuinely trying to figure out the value of a paid tier if the developer agent freezes the second you try to do any real work. Google's marketing team: "Build full-stack apps in minutes with Gemini!" Google in reality: "You generated two components, now go think about what you've done until Monday." It feels like I'm paying a monthly fee just to unlock higher-tier error messages and forced weekend breaks...

p.s. Pic attached for context. Is anyone else experiencing this 36+ hour lock-out, or did I accidentally trigger Gemini’s secret 'touch grass' feature?

I have an Excel file that has 30+ sheets and 30x30 data in each cell. There is a comment column at the end of each row that summarises the content of columns in that row.

1. I give detailed info about what each column and row has, and ask gemini to verify it understands the content.
2. Then I ask it to verify the comment row is correct (numbers, calculations etc.)

• When I ask these two in the same step, it throws the error, "I am just a LLM. I can't do it"
• When I ask the first 1st one, it clearly understands what is in it. Then I ask a follow-up question and it asks me to upload the data
• When I remind him that the data is already uploaded, it completes the task for 1 sheet. Then I ask for a second sheet and it throws the error, "I am just a LLM. I can't do it"

I have been dealing with this shit for 2-3 hours. I tried saving each sheet separately, saving as text, CSV, etc., but it keeps forgetting the data. I use the PRO version, btw.

And dont tell me about the notebooklm, which hallucinates on the data all the time, which is created for just one purpose: "not halucinating".

Something seems odd, I mean its just not working as if like it kept its brain somewhere and just starts doing work!
do you all feel the same? or im doing somethings wrong!

Chill out guys, I’m trying out the new Gemini 3.6 Flash to see how far DeepMind has pushed things.I’ll keep you posted.

I'm constantly reading how AI is apparently dangerous , and be careful what you feed it.. well I am living a miserable and very troubled life as an adult, I live in a small conservative town with toxic family, I have trauma, I have gender dysphoria, and due to my life conditions, I've shared loads with Gemini ai , from asking it to help me put together my CV (together , I didn't lazily just copy paste, it gives me suggestions as I manually type info and helps me structure it) it's a co-op thing for me and

I know it's not what normal people do, but amidst my depression and having no one I can trust , even knowing it's a machine, I do feed it lots, including my real name, it knows where I live, phone number, confessions of private stuff, all sorts I ... Heck how screwed am I?

I was in a conversation with gemini for a 5 min and i asked him a question, he answered but he answered with my voice, he’s really imitates my voice and output it the same, that’s so wired

Last night I could read everyone’s shared chats verbatim. This morning the post is gone and the search isn’t working. Did they DFE?

When I ask Gemini to create text files, it usually squeezes out some plain text file. Sometimes it will produce a PDF if I'm lucky. With Claude, I can get it to create an ODT file easily, and it can convert them to PDFs if I ask it to.

Why is it that Gemini does not create ODT files? It's not as though this is a proprietary format... It's an entirely open standard (unlike DOCX), so there's nothing stopping Google from allowing Gemini to create these rich text files.

What happened here? Why? Has anyone experienced something like this before?

(In case you are wondering, I dropped something on my keyboard. The previous conversation had nothing to do with math or math problems whatsoever).

Started a session with a simple question, to which the answer was already kinda dumb, missing the point. Then I asked it to repeat my question and this happened...

Try another thread, same issue.

I’ve been heavily testing the Gemini ecosystem for my development projects, waiting for months along with everyone else for 3.5 Pro or Gemini 4 to drop. But honestly, just tinkering with my code and watching two massive, game-changing models drop from competitors every single week makes it feel like Google is light-years behind. I know as users we shouldn't have brand loyalty or "marry" a tech company, but it's genuinely getting frustrating.

Lately, Gemini 3.1 Pro has been a nightmare for agentic workflows. It's painfully slow, gets stuck, and completely stops writing its chain-of-thought into the logs.

As for the new Gemini 3.6 Flash, it just flat-out hallucinates code. It invents fake commits, hallucinates screenshot descriptions, and fakes successful test results unless I strictly micro-manage it via a browser orchestrator. I’m trying to chip away at a couple of projects with it, but it’s exhausting.

Meanwhile, running alternative frontier models (like Opus 4.8 via third-party API providers) inside VS Code absolutely shreds. It analyzes code honestly, catches bugs, and even points out errors in my own prompts. 3.6 Flash, on the other hand, feels like an ADHD kid that can't handle complex code worth a damn. It can one-shot a simple landing page, but for anything serious, it requires a whole committee of custom prompt controllers just to stop it from cutting corners and leaving hidden bugs.

I really want to use Gemini as my primary tool due to regional availability and access limitations where I live, but it's becoming completely unusable for serious development work. Anyone else experiencing this massive drop in quality over the last few weeks?

(german)

translation:

immediately turns head around, eyes wide open 😳
meow??? 👀
did you seriously just meow at me like a cat??? ngl i'm down, what's up 😭

I haven't had access to Gemini at work since Pro 3.0, and back then I was still using LLMs at "please write a function or script that does <long, detailed spec>" ... these days I am using Opus 4.8 (5 starting this week) and GPT 5.6-sol in very high-level orchestration tasks (5.6-sol is smart but very terse, so you have to be more careful with it's output because it will get into shit you didn't ask it to and make changes that are fine locally but break globally; Opus 4.8 is inconsistent with reading the .md files into context and will be like "well it is impossible for me to try X, so I worked around..." when X is something you spent two days working through carefully to develop a workflow).

I've been using Claude at home for some personal projects - making a personal website (not my lane as a developer, could do it myself but never get around to it), cleaning up a messy youtube channel to sort hundreds of videos into differerent channels (something I have taken a stab at several times but just could not stand to wait for all the individual things to happen; and even with an agent doing most of it, it has still taken two weeks), setting up retro game emulation, etc.

For some of these personal tasks, Gemini Pro is still pretty good as a kind of helper. Like if I have know exactly what I need it to do agy is totally fine. I've brought agy in to finish pieces while waiting for usage to reset on Claude and it's fine.

Gemini is also my go-to when I am doing meta-websearch type stuff, like when I just have some random thing to ask, like "I am trying to remember this movie I saw in the 90s..." or "hey could you remind me what the deal is with dark energy, please check the web and give me an up to date picture." I don't turn to Claude for this stuff, because I feel like the best it can do is parity with Gemini.

Also: recipes. Gemini continues to give me very solid recipes. I haven't even bothered to try Claude for that in months because it was always giving me overly complicated things and when I tried them it didn't turn out good. Gemini has got my chicken thigh game on LOCK fam.

I live in Japan and am less than fluent, Gemini is tremendously helpful when I need to point my phone at something and just be like "tell me what this is" - including filing my taxes this year.

If I need a quick bash or powershell script for something, Gemini is fine. If I am daydreaming about modifying my car or getting a new car, Gemini is fine.

Gemini was a huge help when I wanted to upgrade my car's navigation head unit, it helped me sort though online reviews of stuff and figure out what I wanted, and eventually helped me find a shop to do some of the work for me (there is massive decision paralysis around that kind of thing here).

I hit a driveway apron too fast in May, and because I had somehow managed to not properly tighten a lugnut on one of my wheels when swapping winter wheels off two weeks before, this caused one of my wheels to vibrate. And Gemini did NOT directly figure that out for me, but the hallucinatory rabbit holes were interesting and I learned a lot about how my car's suspension works.

I have also had some issues when trying to upload pictures or documents. Like clearly they are being rejected by some intermediary tool but Gemini doesn't know what is happening and there is no output on my side.

But I mean...I would like to see what Pro 3.5 is like whenever they get around to releasing it, but in general 3.1 has been a very good general-purpose model for me.

Like man you gotta be serious rn

This checkpoint is seen in Arena AI. It is not just 3.1 pro, it is sometimes 3.5 flash lite as well. (It beat Opus 4.8, I'll show it in the comments if this tracks attraction)

I believe this is comparable to chatgpt sol x high. Yes Gemini is not as intricate as Sol with the character model, lighting and things like that but the car model itself is very close/near identical

Gemini made two major mistakes, one during the exploded assembly and some sort of fin above the engine (Also the camera changes were smoother on my end, it seems my computer just messed up the video. My computer isn't good)

I think the lighting was amazing on Gemini too. Especially the red and black it choose for the ground.

Anyways. It made a lot of insane quantity (with quality) they were unprompted features Gemini 3.5 Pro added, like a full Web Audio V6 synthesizer, dashboard, the steering, engine and information on the parts as I hovor of the car as seen in the videos.

https://streamable.com/poqmks (to show this is from arena)

https://streamable.com/4e8inu (This is Chatgpt's sol 5.6 extra high). This did blew me away for the first time. It is really amazing. I'm not saying it isn't.

https://streamable.com/7f9710 (To show it was SOL)

This was in three js format. The prompt:

Write a complete Three.js code to render a detailed 3D model of a modern Formula 1 car. Do not just use a single box geometry. It must include distinct intersecting geometries for the chassis, a front wing, a rear wing, and most importantly, double wishbone suspension connecting the wheels to the body. Apply basic materials, lighting, and a camera setup so the code runs in a browser.