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Comment by refulgentis | Hacker News Reader

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John, do you understand that the thing you're quoting says "We reserve the right to pull things", not "We reserve the right to swap in a new service"?

Do you understand that even if it did say that, that wasn't true either? It was some weird undocumentable half-beast?

I have exactly your attitude about their cavalier use of preview for all things Gemini, and even people's use of the preview models.

But I've also been on this site for 15 years and am a bit wow'd by your interlocution style here -- it's quite rare to see someone flip "the 3P provider swapped the service on us!" into "well they said they could turn it off, of course you should expect it to be swapped for the first time ever!" insert dull sneer about the quality of other engineers

How is this so hard to understand? It's a preview service for testing only, not intended for production.

I am done with this thread. We are going around in circles.

Well, no. Well, sure. You're done, but we're not going in circles. It'd just do too much damage to you to have to answer the simple question "Where does the legalese say they can swap in a new service?", so you have to pretend this is circular and just all-so-confusing, de facto, we have to pretend it is confusing and/or obviously wrong to use any Gemini 2+ at all.

It's a cute argument, as I noted, I'm emotionally sympathetic to it even, it's my favorite "get off my lawn." However, I've also been on the Internet long enough to know you write back, at length, when people try anti-intellectualism and why-are-we-even-talking-about-this as interaction.

https://cloud.google.com/terms/service-terms

"b. Disclaimer. PRE-GA OFFERINGS ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS OF ANY KIND. Pre-GA Offerings (i) may be changed, suspended or discontinued at any time without prior notice to Customer and (ii) are not covered by any SLA or Google indemnity. Except as otherwise expressly indicated in a written notice or Google documentation, (A) Pre-GA Offerings are not covered by TSS, and (B) the Data Location Section above will not apply to Pre-GA Offerings."

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