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Based on this comment, decided to try out gemini.

Total disaster. Doing similar tasks to openai and claude, it just borks. And it is complaining about my desire to use a gender guesser python libary, and tells me that's inappropriate for non-binary people, and it won't do it.

That's fun.

Edit 1: Also it refuses to print the entire script. I've tried many work arounds, it seems to only want to output a very small number of total lines.

Threw it into ChatGPT and immediately it fixed all the issues with Gemini, and worked on first try.

Edit 2: The only thing better about Gemini as far as I can tell, is that the copy code button is on the bottom. ChatGPT's is at the top, and that's dumb.

Edit 3: I'm being downvoted heavily now, to be clear, I didn't intentionally seek out the gender issue, it's just what I was working on.

I'm currently trying to generate infographics based on wrestlers, and I needed to split the men from the female for championship title rankings.

I have no problem with it in general, it just came up, so I communicated it.

Multiple times Gemini removed the code using the gender guesser library because it felt I shouldn't use it. When trying to determine wrestlers, and their Title Chances, it makes a lot of sense...

But Gemini just refused to allow me to use it, which seems like a ridiculous thing. I want to make the choices here.



I've had the same exact experiences.


Problem with Google summed up. Ethics and pseudo sciences folks wanting to opinionate technology. That's akin to a kitchen knife refusing to cut gift wrapping paper because that's inappropriate use of a knife. The silliness




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