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Last time I tried using Gemini in Google Sheets it hallucinated a bunch of fake data, then gave me a summary that included all that fake data. I'd given it a bunch of transaction data, and asked it to group the records into different categories for budgeting. When asking it to give the largest values in each category, all the values that came back were fake. I'm not sure I'd really trust it to touch a spreadsheet after that.

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you should:

-stop using the free plan -don't use gemini flash for these tasks -learn how to do things over time and know that all ai models have improved significantly every few months

Well I'm paying for pro, so I assume it's not using the model that does nothing useful. Is there a setting for that?

Whats the month over month improvement if the current state is "creates entirely fake data that looks convincing" as a user it's hard to tell when we've hit a point of this being a useful feature. The old timey metric would normally be that when a company rolls out a new feature it's usually mostly functional, that doesn't appear to be the case here at all, so what's the sign?

Or not use it.

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