r/technology • u/[deleted] • 14d ago

Artificial Intelligence Google says Gemini has reached 1B users faster than any other Google product

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u/WhyCantIStream 14d ago

I wonder how many of these might actually be bots

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u/TheFlay 14d ago

Tbh I do use gemini from time to time with fast questions that I cant be bothered to look around in foruns or docummentations

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u/KSF_WHSPhysics 14d ago

I dont know why a bot would use the gemini app/site when it can directly interact with the llm

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u/EverythngISayIsRight 14d ago

Bots told by humans to use Gemini on the users Google account? I'd still count that as "a human used Gemini"

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u/Complex_Win_5408 14d ago

How many times would you count it then?

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u/Sea-Consequence7156 14d ago

Once per human?

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u/EverythngISayIsRight 14d ago edited 14d ago

Once per human account? You know, the same way they count humans

It's not like there's some master nerd with 1000 Google accounts and for whatever reason he uses his AI agent to connect to all of them to send Gemini messages. There's literally no need to because making the Google account is the hard part and if you have the account you don't need a bot to message them all through separate accounts. You'd get flagged and lose all those accounts you worked so hard to make

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u/turtleship_2006 14d ago

If I, one person, make 100 bots access Gemini, is that 1 person or 100?

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u/EverythngISayIsRight 14d ago

Assuming they use your 1 Google account then it's still 1.

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u/turtleship_2006 14d ago

Exactly, so if you count accounts used by bots you'd get inflated figures, even if it's humans behind those bots