If anyone was falling prey to “Google+” behavior I’d say it’s Microsoft slapping “Copilot” on everything.

Google is probably doing the same with Gemini but MS really takes the cake IMHO.

After reading the whole article I feel the author misses the point (intentionally or not). LLMs are not truth machines. The article feels like a long winded rant about how Gemini is supposed to perform perfectly as a source of knowledge.

There is an enormous amount of utility in LLMs for scaffolding code, making recommendations for services, rephrasing marketing, or coming up with ideas.

A hammer isn't a good can opener, but it is still a useful tool. Likewise, stop using LLMs as a replacement for everything (ignoring the marketing hype) and you will likely be less cynical.

I imagined that this article was going to be about the emergence of a social network on Gemini which in some way resembled the one Google developed years ago, but instead it is about a completely unrelated thing Google has recently developed which also happens to be called Gemini!