Google is breaking Google Home and Assistant by forcing migration to misinformation-spewing and self-censoring Gemini AI.
Google Assistant (whether on a phone or Home/Nest device) when asked a fact question will usually try to answer it and -- notably -- tell you from what site it got the answer. Basically like the top of results answers for ordinary search queries when they are not AI Overviews.
Google is now in the process of forcing everyone into the disinformation train wreck that is Gemini. This means not only that Home devices will soon stop providing sources for an answer when they answer (obtained from a single Web site, so you can judge whether it is a reputable source or not), but soon will replace this with its unreliable, often partly or completely wrong, misleading and sometimes dangerous garbage responses. There are some indications that Gemini is now answering some politically oriented questions that until now it has flatly refused to answer (like "Who won the 2020 election?" or "Who is Joe Biden?") On the other hand, there are many reports that Gemini seriously messes up Assistant commands and routines for Home/Nest device control, etc.
Basically, another nail in Google's coffin. And a big one.
Lauren Weinstein
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