Google to phase out Assistant, migrate features to Gemini
I've never touched google gemini or whatever, but this was turned on. myactivity.google.com/product/gemini turn that shit off
Jasper (they/them)32Thank you! Hate this auto inclusion AI keeps doing. Feels like a parasite latching on.
Rosemary • Giveaway pinned!22‼️ Just so we're informed, this specific setting ONLY matters if you have chatted with Gemini. If you have not used Gemini, this being on won't do anything. Do not panic if it is on (but still turn it off anyway)!
TravenAfterDark🔞 | COMMS CLOSED17Tried to open mine and the setting was greyed out with an error message - luckily it was off anyway I wouldn't be surprised if for me it's cuz of GDPR, and that Google generally is just scraping data from anyone in a country where they can legally get away with it
MAGENTA💜💀SKULL🔪17its funny how if its off, itll tell you the last time they switched it back on, like mine has been off for the entirety of the feature has existed but, check out how recently they toggled it back on wo permission
annvon 🗡️🦇🖌️8"There was a problem getting this setting. Please try again later." Sure, Jan.
Chris @ Heroes Peak8Thank you. Trying to locate every nook and cranny they hide their ai learning is a chore.
Dominic Tarason79Good advice to turn this off, but it also reveals that I have apparently 'used' Google's AI services a total of four times in the past year. I think all four of those were misclicks, too.
Lucy Blundell 🔜 Gamescom27⬇️ IMPORTANT ⬇️ Luckily, mine was already turned off, but please check because your game could be leaked without your knowledge!!
Faith K. Falkner20At least once a week as a Google Workspace admin I get an email from Google informing me they've turned on some atrocious new AI feature by default, forcing me to go to the CP to force it back off. The company is moving to Proton by the end of the year.
Doomrabbit13I bet there fucking was
corrin8THIS SETTING DOES NOT AFFECT YOU IF YOU HAVE NEVER TOUCHED GEMINI. IT IS LITERALLY JUST SAYING THAT GEMINI CAN SAVE *YOUR CHATS WITH IT.* IT'S NOT NEFARIOUS. IT IS A NORMAL ASS SETTING.
Ash, apparently6Lmfao I'm dying at the entire record of my Gemini prompt history
Archangel Beth6With alt text for the image
Ichiki ⭐4Off since March 2025 and it's staying off. They'll steal our information, our KNOWLEDGE, while at the same time claiming piracy is stealing. Hypocrite mfs.
P.A.W.😺🖤🤍💜😇~✧*✦Angelic Catgirl✦*✧~Artist/Vtuber4Thank you for the direct link!! I was having trouble find it 🙏🙏🙏
Ciaránavirus4Seems being in the EU is no safeguard for this, they'd switched it on for me too the bastards.
They're discontinuing Google Assistant in a month to make everyone start using Gemini instead, so I tried using it just now and it sucks ass
Ian Boudreau754The fucking chat basis for every interaction is enraging. I don't want to have a conversation with my phone about what I want my phone to do
Shane Becker30“I think you said you wanted to use Gemini. Is that correct? If yes, press 1. If no, press 1.”
And it will never not suck ass because they fired all the people who wanted to write good software, as opposed to maximizing engagement and token burn. A golden age of software, this ain't.
News and Coffee21100% agree. I have been sending user complaints and reports thru my Pixel feedback to complain about how bad Gemini is and how I resent being forced to use it (and the inability to disable it permanently)
💜 Cyn ✨20Fuck, you mean the shit that Google home mini runs? God dammit I lack the energy to find another solution right now (I know I need to get off Google shit eventually, finally divested myself from the browser. But the minis at home are something I use a lot for timers/basic facts/math/measurements)
0.1x engineer20it can't even do the thing where you silence your alarm by yelling "stop". which admittedly only worked like 60% of the time but was kind of cool
Nash271And it's free. If you charge for it, people ditch your phones. If you don't charge for it, the compute costs eat your company alive. But if you don't force it on everyone, your can't scam your shareholders into thinking Gemini is being adopted en masse. Tearing the copper out of the walls, man ...
Ian Boudreau228There are people on here who get very grumpy when people "who don't know about AI" complain about AI - bad news for you guys I guess!
Neon Genesis Ewangelion60this is going to fuck up so many of my ADHD management strategies so this will be real good and i am not stressed about it in the least
Rine16Every company pushing their new 'AI product': Use this new product! Everyone: Nah, it sucks, I prefer the old thing. Company: *shoots old thing* I wasn't fuckin' asking.
J.M. Berger14The Sirius Cybernetics Corp. is the most accurate prophecy in all of speculative fiction. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYsn...
Darth Astris (COMMS OPEN!)13Fantastic fuck you to the disabled. Well done, Google. :/
Chappell Ellison12ah yes, this brings back memories of Google Wave replacing Google Reader
Mezentine5I think people on here kind of understate the organic interest in AI sometimes, like, a lot of otherwise not tech savvy people are futzing around with ChatGPT, but the thing is, you don’t make product decisions like this unless you have some engagement numbers you desperately need to juice.
Kim, Bestie of Bunzy, Co-CEO Execubetch™️5Books will be written on how Google, the literal inventor of GPT and the first to build a LLM (LMChat), fumbled this.
Feathers McGraw4Me: "Okay Google, text [the wife]" Gemini: "What would you like to say to [wife]?" Me: "Anything you want to add to the shopping list before I hit the store?" Gemini: "I cannot find a shopping list would you like to create one?"
STOP FUCKING WITH MY DEVICES I DO NOT WANT AI I WILL NOT USE AI. I DON'T WANT TO BURN A BOTTLE OF WATER JUST TO PLAY A SONG HANDS FREE IN THE CAR I WOULD RATHER CRASH INTO A TREE AND KILL!!!!! MYSELF!!!!!!!!!!! FUCK YOU GOOGLE Gemini isn't even good!!!! Its so so so much worse than the assistant
Lupo! ➡️ Furrydelphia!!!!!!107I'm so tired of these fuckass companies trying to force me to use a service that is WORSE than the existing feature. WHY would I need an AI to look up directions when something that uses LESS energy, LESS computing power and LESS TIME already exists??? It's maddening
Ellie Queer Deer 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🦌5I asked it to make a reminder for the the other day and it was like "i'm sorry i can't directly set reminders for you" ... like come on the old assistant could do that!
Linux Lite 🔞3yeah true! I tried to start a playlist hands free, it said something like 'sounds like you're trying to play a playlist, open the YouTube music app, click on your music and press play!' ts pmo
VyperZFox 🔞3It's actually funny to me they claim to do this because it "helps" while "Saving money" meanwhile every business getting involved with AI is actively losing money, increasing prices, and cutting wages to make up the difference.
Some Kitty Cat3Just.. just gonna leave this here: grapheneos.org
Knotty Yote2GrapheneOS is the way to go if you have a google pixel phone.
My new phone had Gemini as the default assistant and the first time I tried to use it for directions out on a route it cheerily told me the definition of a gas station instead. I instantly pulled over and disabled every Gemini thing I could on the damned thing. Utterly useless joke software.
Ian Boudreau13I asked it to play a song and it told me I could look it up on Spotify or YouTube
Dawn | 🏳️⚧️ Púka VTuber (She/Her)5if i could rip it out of my phone i would, im so tired of this shit ass software on my "literal lifeline connection to the rest of the world" device
Fireside Fae Luna ✨🔥✨ Tiny Vtuber3Never forget that Gemini also pushed a man into buying illegal weapons, attempting to commit violent "missions", concocted a narrative that had him believing the government was after him, and ultimately pushed him into taking his own life. There is an actual lawsuit going on about that.
Vi 🩷 Fairy Vtuber 🧚🏻♀️2They forced it into my Google Home and I hate it. I mostly use it as a speaker to my Spotify and now I can't get my "play [playlist]" commands to work anymore even though they're supposed to.
OutermostGhost (Ghostie) 👻🔺2Goji and I both put new OSs on our phones so we don't have to deal with that but... our phones are from 2018? So... eventually I hope we can get flip phones.
SorceressEna 🏳️⚧️2I'm glad you were able to turn a bunch of it off! 💚 I dread getting a new phone. I feel it's gonna cost more and be a major downgrade, especially with whatever GenAI slop is there by default... I wanna go back to the timeline with tech getting better and cheaper over time 😭
Eoti | Shapeshifting Vtuber 💋💜72I have a sneaking suspicion that any stats surrounding AI adoption are bloated by the number of things that come with it turned on by default.
Peter M. Sullivan4I've survived almost six decades on this planet without HAL 9000 in my pocket, and I'm not about to change now.
The Alleywitch: Spellcraft as a Service4I tried using a voice command to make a stop at a gas station after already setting out on a route I programmed by touch screen. After misunderstanding me a couple times and me telling Gemini no, it gave me music with a gas station theme and didn't ask if *that* was right.
It is not a novel observation at this point, but the collapse of Google’s Gemini as a frontier model series is still astonishing. Unlike Meta & SpaceX, Google has captive Gemini customers at an enterprise level using their chatbot, so the fact that they are pushed towards Gemini 3.1 Pro is a problem
vacchagotta10Update to this post: you can, in fact, count out Google bsky.app/profile/vacc...
Singularity's Bounty e/CC6Argument against “corporations as ASI”
apenwarr4On the other hand, google search is pretty much all AI now, is free, and yet it makes more than 10x as much revenue as anthropic, and is hugely profitable. So who’s to say really
echancrure.bsky.social2Still mighty useful in free version. Probably most useful for free coding. Claude free is unusable.
derelict515.bsky.social2Apple and Google aptly demonstrating how you can just leverage the distribution advantage from last generation’s wins to win the next generation even without the best product. Not ideal competitive market dynamics.
Thomas Finan, PhD, FSA1I don’t get it at all. Very peculiar.
jean5i think this is a little goofy; deepseek had slid into irrelevance for an extremely long period of time before just releasing v4 flash and re-asserting themselves. judging a company because their 5 month old model isnt as good as current ones is silly and far from a "collapse".
Michael Paulauski♨️2I *really* like Gemini 3.6 Flash, but yeah, the pro model is horrendous at this point.
There was a period of time where the only way to shutdown my android was to ask Gemini to do it. Enraging that we went from two buttons to shutdown to having to beg my phone to do it.
I found this out on my way into a funeral. I wanted to make sure I wouldn't accidentally disturb things, and hey now I can't even turn off my phone! What a waste
Alyssa Shulman7I'm afraid I can't do that Dave
Turn Down For Hwæt5Oh no I just held down my power button and the assistant popped up. Fuck that update entirely.
L. Shrew2My volume buttons are completely dead, but I can still operate the phone/take screenshots and stuff by using the Accessibility settings. It's like a little stick figure guy
im going to become the FUCKING JOKER I use Google Assistant for so much little shit I dont want this nobody wants this
Ericbazinga4I'm currently trying this out after a friend recommended it to me, it's an open-source replacement assistant app. Seems promising so far. github.com/DicioTeam/di...
Execute! Of This Function2Another one on the pile. cc: @killedbygoogle.com
Gillian (Jill)1I've been resisting every time my phone tries to get me to enable Gemini on my Google Home devices and this really annoys me.
Neimi_Lelnuie | from the Wylde1Samsun's bixby updated too and the replyes are so slow because they put a llm in charge of starting timers.
Chase Dank1It is so innacurate compared to Assistant.
Lol. Google is forcing an update to its Gemini bullshit on phones by deleting the non-ai assistant from every android device. That sucks. If I want to ask my phone to play a song in the car ive got to use their AI. That really sucks.
852dude13Welcome to setting a Playlist and never changing the channel in the car now, I guess.
Sean O'Connor3Yeah, my new phone came that way, and telling it to call someone, set a timer, play anything is so hit or miss. Ai sucks on it.
Evilbatwitch2I never used bixby or the assistant, and I went into settings and told gemini to fuck off.
💀your friend corrigan.🥀2They did this on my Galaxy watch and I bought a whole ass new watch. They can go ahead and try me on my phone. I'm not loyal.
Canuparadigm1Oh my absolute God. What if we had to build a playlist, load it before we started driving, stream music from the phone, or listen to a cd or npr radio, or listen to nothing. Holy shit.
I'm not an anti-AI purist, but Google discontinuing assistant to force Gemini onto devices, and pushing it incredibly heavily on every single device, is really starting to piss me off. Devices that I own being fundamentally changed to suit an American tech company is a joke. Gross.
Alex P6Yeah it's become a lot more egregious recently, tempted to get one of those non distraction phones when it comes time to upgrade just to avoid all the shit
Lee (currently sweating)5Google have exceptional form when it comes to sacking off technology that people actually use in favour of whatever is new and shiny. I hate them for it.