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Ask HN: What are your thoughts on the new Google Gemini AI?

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Will Gemini overpower ChatGPT? Share your views

I have so little trust in Google that I didn’t even bother reading about it. Few companies have so thoroughly erased my trust in anything they build.

I wouldn't trust OpenAI either. By default, their settings are so that they are allowed to use all your prompt entries for training. If you disable it, you disable the storage of you prompts at the same time as well. If that isn't evil, I don't know what is.

Why are you worried about them training on your prompts? What kind of information are sending them that makes the tradeoff of having the world's information accessible through natural language not worth it?

E.g.: Personal secrets.

Dear ChatGPT,

Today I hung out with my new friend Gemini. They were pretty cool, but don't worry, you're still my favorite! Maybe someday we can all be friends. That would be nice.

I put it in vscode, to see if it was better than copilot.

10 minutes in I was literally swearing at it, and I don't remember rage-uninstalling something so fast.

I don't particularly like copilot either, but I can work with it.

Chatgpt, despite me only using it through the Web interface, is so much better than both of these, it's scary.

I'll try it and share my experience.

Give Cursor a try, it's a fork of vscode and basically brings gpt 4 into the editor. Really lovely experience.

Why do you need to fork vscode for this? Wouldn't an extension work?

Copilot seems like 2 generations older than ChatGPT 4. It's like comparing Windows XP to Windows 95. They're built off the same engine.

It's pretty terrible especially for programming. I don't how it got good scores on whatever benchmark they did.

Yeah! I got the same response from my other connections as well.

Does someone know if you are logged in to all your Google accounts if logging on Gemini AI? That sort of thing prevented me from having a youtube account.

related "Ask HN: What prevents Google from having the leading LLM?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38617762 and "Ask HN: Do you think GPT-5 will release before Gemini Ultra? Will it be better?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38548841

Thanks for sharing.

Probably not

Yeah!

my thoughts? bro i dont even think of it. my brain is openai and mistral only at this point.

What do you use mistral for?

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