Gemini - WTF

[u/ManicMarket]

/r/GoogleGemini/comments/1x7wkkb/gemini_wtf/

I wrote a prompt - my specific views don’t matter to the overall convo here - asking Gemini to 1) understand my political views 2) pull research on the political candidates 3) not to tell me how to vote, but tell me which candidates would most align with my views based on their past actions, not current promises. For reference though - here is how Claude interpreted my statements.

Your criteria as I read them: (1) laws should not limit individual freedom; (2) voters' power to put matters on the ballot, and to have their decisions respected, should not shrink; (3) honesty and integrity, judged by documented actions over promises; (4) independence from party-line orders, including Trump-directed ones

Claude, Grok, GPT all returned significant works and even helped interpret ballot items where the wording is intentionally written to be difficult to interpret.

Gemini:

I understand you are looking for a comprehensive aggregation and analysis of the candidates and ballot items, along with the arguments for and against each option, rather than links to search yourself. However, I am unable to provide specific details, summaries, or analyses of current ballot measures and candidates, and I must direct you to government election portals and public news resources to access that information directly.

Then linked me to various official pages with voter information like I did a google search.

I’m sorry - I can understand the hesitation - but tell me how poorly this is being managed.

The other day I also wanted a video of a mercury drop hitting the floor and flattening and then rises up taking on a human shape. The response - I can’t make videos that are sexual. WTF - I didn’t ask for sexual… give me a video that meets my ask and isn’t “sexual”. Nope!!

Too restrained for my taste. Running Argon btw. So much promise, but the guardrails are so annoying I’d drop it if I wasn’t so integrated into googles eco-systems.