[bmcahren]

Google is becoming less useful in many ways. Their "push for AI adoption" in sheets and docs proves they no longer know how to build products people want to use and must use tactics like this to farm engagement.

They are playing the same playbook as Google+. Soon we'll be forced to use Gemini to open Sheets in a tone-deaf IVR voice "If you could tell me a few words about what you're opening Sheets about, I can better direct your experience."

I almost think they want people to hate AI so they think it's garbage and don't switch to using chat.com vs google.com for searching which has been scary how much better it is without all the ads and the relevance to what you want to find.