The latest was 9/11 and that is still quite relevant to us today.

It's as recent as WWII was when Nixon got elected.

And Nixon followed through with countless post-WW2 policies, practices, and acted on concerns that stemmed specifically from that conflict. The Cold War and all related funding being an easy example.

I’d also be very wary of recency bias when looking at the extremist fringes of religious and political situations that have been ongoing for centuries. We might feel a couple decades is a long time, but in conflicts all parties can veto the other parties subjective interpretations.

> quite relevant

Quite relevant in terms of? Security (theater?) measures that have been allowed to continue?

The short repetitive sentences, and the “it’s not x, it’s y” tone

When you buy a Windows license, you expect at least a basic level of support from them in case something goes wrong. It is built into the cost.

Also - many many institutions have declared that what’s happening is a genocide, and unfortunately that hasn’t changed anything. (Perhaps naive of me to believe that it would change anything)

Valid question, but just look at the huge amount of R&D / the tech companies in Israel. Even if it’s near conflict, I don’t think companies care

A company doesn't care. An army does.

I’m never the one to defend AI, but what do you mean? Is it the “AI overview” that pops up on Google? Other than that, I would say Gemini is definitely less in your face than ChatGPT for example

My company uses google workspace and every google doc, spreadsheet, calendar, online meeting and search puts nonstop callouts and messages about using Gemini. It's gotten so bad that I'm about to try building a browser extension to block that bullshit. It clutters the UI and nags. If I wanted that crap, I'd turn it on.

I see - I feel the same way about Copilot (as my company uses the Microsoft ecosystem).

I also find those "please please please try me!" popups annoying, but at least Google Workspace is one product where deep AI integration actually makes sense. I like the ability to quickly get summaries or edit documents by telling it what needs to be done in generic terms.

Sounds like you don't like a product choice that your company made. Have you considered talking to your company?

Oh yes, I'm sure they'd change their entire setup and way of doing business based on my complaint.

The latest Samsung updates (and Pixel too I imagine?) baked it into the OS and made it difficult/impossible to disable. It’s probably that. I also agree, aside from that I haven’t seen anything about Gemini at all, I think their marketing is quite poor for something so important.

The fact that it’s still highly likely to write like this and hallucinate information.

Then the content will fit right it with the rest.

bless you as well for linking this !

Not pressuring you at all if this is hard to talk about - but if you're open to sharing more about how you were affected, I'd love to listen