I remember when it wouldn't even give me the lyrics to the star spangled banner. https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=44832990#44833365
How likely or difficult is it for Google to engage in, for lack of better word, "thought policing"?
You ask your "private" AI assistant to answer a naughty question or help with problematic task(from Google's hidden list) and then you eventually face the ban hammer.
Did anybody ever get banned for searching the wrong keywords?
I don't think there's any reports of banning from all Google services based on Gemini use.
No, but they probably pass clusters of (perceived to be) dangerous searches on to the Feds. Talking out my ass though.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/technology/google-surveil...
just like closedai, no?
> we route their conversations to specialized pipelines where they are reviewed by a small team
https://openai.com/index/helping-people-when-they-need-it-mo...
Having said that, an offline backup of a couple of terabytes will rarely break the bank and is not a bad idea at all.
I probably need to get on that.
Secondly, a Google account can be disabled for a broader variety of reasons, not limited to the above causes.
If it goes beyond that then let me know.
Note that possessing significant adult content in non-E2E storage risks eventual misclassification by a bot.
They are not super mature yet (though have been around for several years) so the product still has some improvements to be made, but I like it.
One thing I read on a reddit thread [1] was that the AI pro 2 TB plan explicitly allows sharing the AI and storage benefits when you enable family sharing on them, while the 5 TB plan doesn't.
However, when I went to sign up, the 5 TB plan wasn't available at all! It's only their lite and basic plans (the one with 30 and 100 GB of storage); the 5TB one only showed up after I signed up for the pro plan, and judging by how the UX looked, you pay an extra amount on top of your AI pro plan.
Now I definitely need family sharing, but I don't need the full 2 TB, let alone 5 TB, so I didn't bother checking further about the 5TB plan.
Also, I am in India, maybe things are different in your region?
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/GoogleOne/comments/1nib21a/solved_g...
The difference between the AI and non-AI 2TB plan is 1000 AI "credits" (tokens?) vs 200. €120 p/a difference between the two for me which is huge.
Take a look at the comments in the thread and tell me whether there is a consensus on which AI has the best "quality". Gemini, Claude, ChatGPT are all stochastic machines; they'll give me a different output at different times for the very same query, with differences in quality each time within themselves, let alone other products.
I did my own checks; newer Gemini's output is consistently "good enough" for me and my family now, we individually do not use the full extent of the Pro plan (collectively, we do), and NotebookLM is something which more than one of us uses everyday; Image generation is something we use once a week or so. Given all this, the feature breadth within Gemini covers all bases for us, with a significant catch-up in quality compared to earlier to a point that we don't really need to look elsewhere for now.
Plus, for us USD 20 is not a small amount; it's equivalent to one of our larger utility bills we need to pay for every month. So price is definitely an important point of consideration.
I'm not saying there's any certain answer to which AI has the best quality. That answer depends on the user. For you, Gemini seems to fit the bill very well.
> Plus, for us USD 20 is not a small amount; it's equivalent to one of our larger utility bills we need to pay for every month.
That's not a logical comparison, since those things aren't related in any way. Your utility bill being cheap doesn't make everything else expensive. Some things are just great value, that doesn't mean everything else is not worth it. In that case, you should compare every other purchase and expense with that utility bill, and logically not spend money on anything else.
If Internet would suddenly become $10k a month, maybe you would change country, or move to an office.
If AI would suddenly become $10k you can't do anything about it.
If home internet became $1k/month, I would pay it. $10k, no - I just don't have the cashflow to support that.
If I had to choose one of the three to give up, AI, home internet, or cellphone, I would give up AI. If I had to choose two, I'd give up my cell plan. Home internet is worth a ton of value and dollars to me.
It's easily worth the monthly cost, and I'm happy to pay - something which I didn't even consider doing a year ago. OpenAI just doesn't have the same bundle effect.
Obviously power users and companies will likely consider Anthropic. I don't know what OpenAI's actual product moat is any more outside of a well-known name.