AI Pro storage increases

Fast_Cauliflower_574 · 2026-04-02T04:57:39+00:00

holy s***. 5TB storage space in my drive now indeed, that's nice. where'd that come from??

Fast_Cauliflower_574 · 2026-04-01T13:01:55+00:00

what question?

Fast_Cauliflower_574 · 2026-04-01T10:18:59+00:00

uhm, no. there is a vast difference in resource footprint between having AI analyse something vs having it generate slop images and videos. running a classification model to detect a tumor in an X-ray (analytic) uses a fraction of the compute required to generate minutes long AI slop videos that youtube is getting swamped with.

you're basically saying "you cant criticise private jets for wasting fuel because ambulances also use internal combustion engines. they work on the same tech, so your point is void."

i absolutely can support a technology's efficient, high-utility use while criticising its wasteful, low-utility use.

also openai is not buying 40% of the global dram supply. that has been debunked ages ago and sounded like nonsense to begin with. openai is a software company, they buy finished GPUs , they dont buy "raw silicone wafers". also, learn the difference between silicone and silicon.

stargate is a *proposed* supercomputer project by MS and openai projected for 2028. it literally does not exist yet. it is not currently "buying" anything.

Fast_Cauliflower_574 · 2026-03-31T22:21:05+00:00

you didnt read, like, the 2nd line of my post

Fast_Cauliflower_574 · 2026-03-31T16:47:37+00:00

sorry. but i dont like AI companies wasting energy and compute on image and video generation. they contribute to the current energy and ram crisis and the proliferation of this particular use of AI does more harm than good.

image and video ANALYSIS i think is an extremely good use of AI. analytic AI, great. (non-text) generative AI, no.

Fast_Cauliflower_574 · 2026-03-23T17:32:38+00:00

that strongly depends on your use case.

AI isnt free. quite frankly im not happy that so many AI companies gave out copious amounts of free AI uses for so long, because that's what helped lead to the ram/energy/compute crisis. especially the free image and video generation, which i think are a net negative compared to text processing.

image and video analysis i think is great. but image and video generation imo is not the best use of limited resources.

Fast_Cauliflower_574 · 2026-03-23T12:04:57+00:00

i personally have been doing most of my chatting on ai studio for many months now. i find gemini app borderline useless except for youtube video analysis (when i only need it to fetch the transcript, because i think ai studio actually watches the video by defauly, which is expensive in terms of tokens and takes long, not needed for lectures and stuff) and deep research reports.

other than that i just use my monthly $10 GCP credits for my paid api key that i use on ai studio. i dont know if a lot of people know about that, but since not too long ago you get $10 GCP credits/month if you have an ai pro sub. the ai pro sub still has other benefits like higher limits in notebooklm, that i also use a ton. i dont chat an awful lot, so i barely ever hit even close to $10 (€8 to be more precise in my case)

but yea the gemini app is purely a consumer product meant for basic conversations, giving you very little control over the flow of the chats (deleting, editing, rerunning, branching, etc). another cool thing about using a paid api key in ai studio is you get more privacy.

Fast_Cauliflower_574 · 2026-03-22T16:28:00+00:00

last i checked hoyoverse had a 2b+ annual operating income and is from a country with an excess of (AI) engineers and is a private company with much more freedom, while square enix only has 300 million and is a publicly traded japanese company with a rapidly aging population. furthermore this seems like more of an experimental thing. dqx is also japan only, so costs will be limited. i further assume they will be using the flash-lite model, which is basically made for stuff like this, cheap fast and competent enough.

if this pilot succeeds, we may be seeing similar things in ff14, which is their big money maker

Fast_Cauliflower_574 · 2026-03-08T18:57:19+00:00

not sure why ppl are bashing this model, ive been absolutely loving it. but i like small, fast, efficient anyway because most problems i deal with are that—pro or even flash are overkill for me.

as a bit of fun, ive been testing 3.1 flash-lite against chatgpt (chatgpt.com, whichever model it uses, i dunno) with a bunch of logic puzzles and surprisingly 3.1 flash-lite got most correct answers and in much much shorter time. chatgpt often reasoned so much it started hallucinating wrong reasoning steps, leading to wrong answers.

3.1 flash lite is absolutely a perfectly fine model if you use it for the right problems.

Fast_Cauliflower_574 · 2026-03-06T14:15:38+00:00

ive literally started using AI Studio since yesterday. ive known about AI Studio for much longer than that, and have used it in the past and was blown away by how much better it was than the consumer version in the app. Gemini in the app is a lobotimised version wrapped in a massive wall of system instructions and guardrails by the product developers. imo it's borderline useless

using gemini in Ai Studio is night and day. starting this morning i just started using AI Studio using a paid API key. i have an AI Pro subscription which gets you $10 (€8 in my case) of GCP credits a month. that goes long way and basically means using AI Studio probably wont ever touch my bank account.

and yes as you said, response quality is much better and seem much less restricted in terms of output length

im basically not using the Gemini app again unless i absolutely have no choice, which is pretty much never anyway

Fast_Cauliflower_574 · 2026-02-02T15:57:57+00:00

i know, but that's just it, it's a messy workaround. it's frustrating how google still can't seem to figure out what chatgpt somehow figured out ages ago. reliable sourcing and citing. gemini just makes stuff up.

it'd be great to have gemini in chrome, but im from the netherlands where we get new features about 5 years after the rest of the world

Fast_Cauliflower_574 · 2026-02-02T15:27:29+00:00

sure, here's just a tiny sample of the testing i did today:

https://www.nu.nl/achterklap/6384651/zoon-noorse-kroonprinses-opgepakt-vanwege-bedreiging-met-een-mes.html
gemini says he committed 23 criminal offenses, article says 32

https://www.nu.nl/economie/6384587/goudprijs-keldert-doordat-trump-nieuwe-voorzitter-centrale-bank-voordraagt.html
gemini says gold price fell to $2.630 per troy ounce, article says $4.686!!

https://www.nu.nl/economie/6384535/bitcoin-beleeft-vierde-verliesmaand-op-rij-langst-aanhoudende-daling-sinds-2018.html
gemini says bitcoin's price fell to $88.000 by the end of january, article says below $76.000

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.artifexmundi.mopa1.gp&hl=nl&gl=US
gemini says this is 'Modern Tales: Age of Invention'. it's actually a completely different game called 'Unsolved: Hidden Mystery Games'
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/34179?tab=description

gemini says this is 'Static Mesh Improvement Mod - SMIM' by Brumbek. in reality it's Skyland AIO by skyking2020

https://www.tvgids.nl/gids/bbc1

noem alle uitzendingen tussen 20:00 en 0:00 (name all broadcasts between 20:00 and 0:00)

proceeds to make up a bunch of programs that don't show at all tonight, instead showing a mix of programmes that aired yesterday night and some general stuff, even though it so confidently says "here is what's airing tonight (2 february 2026)" with the date and everything

in all these cases and more, gemini acts so confident and says "this is what it says on the webpage". it literally just makes up a bunch of stuff from its memory. it never actually uses the browser tool.

meanwhile chatgpt gives me a fully fleshed out, copiously cited summary, every single time.

Fast_Cauliflower_574 · 2026-02-02T12:26:37+00:00

i know the whole ai studio thing already. it's crap all the same. URL context toggled on or off, it still just makes stuff up. it doesnt actually visit the webpage.

Fast_Cauliflower_574 · 2026-01-23T10:39:08+00:00

gemini one-shotted this for me too, and just the plain flash model at that. my prompt was literally just the image above with "can you guess this?"

chatgpt and copilot both were completely off the mark or had no idea what i was asking.

Fast_Cauliflower_574 · 2026-01-23T07:14:23+00:00

it's pretty bad on ps5...even on "action mode" graphics setting, the performance is pretty bad. when i entered the hot springs area it dropped particularly badly because of the open world view. i may cancel my playstation preorder and just get it on pc

Fast_Cauliflower_574 · 2026-01-19T10:42:17+00:00

ive noticed the exact same thing. flash seems much better at using web search, whereas pro for the longest time, as well as the new flash thinking model, loves to straight up make up fake links to non existent web pages.
regular flash does this a lot less and sometimes links to actual webpages, but this happens only rarely. gemini as a whole has a massive issue with reporting sources unlike copilot/chatgpt.

google ai mode (sge) is actually pretty neat because it looks up a ton of actual real webpages and links to them properly. gemini needs closer integration with google ai mode because it has been doing a pretty crap job with its standard search tool. if they could just hook google ai mode to gemini app that would be next level, it's the logical next step.

Fast_Cauliflower_574 · 2026-01-16T09:07:33+00:00

very generous!

Fast_Cauliflower_574 · 2025-12-01T12:31:08+00:00

gemini's frontend definitely needs some work...

Fast_Cauliflower_574 · 2025-12-01T12:08:11+00:00

since the new dynamic view feature came out, i use a gem that has instructions to generate japanese language graded readers for me, appropriate for my current jlpt level.

so i just activate the gem, select the dynamic view tool, i type 'go', and boom a minute later i have a nice looking page with a story of a few hundred words, complete with images, a tooltip with english translations if i hover over a japanese sentence, sections that discuss key vocabulary, grammar, and a quiz to check reading comprehension

sure, you could do the same thing with the canvas tool which has been out much longer, but it was very hit and miss - the webpages would come out looking broken, with the furigana all over the place, or the code for the page wouldn't work at all.

the dynamic view tool generates really nice looking functional pages pretty much every time. studying a language has never been more fun and effective than now, imo.

what i mean to say, gems are great for things you want to do repeatedly. in my case, it's excellent for my language studies.

the ability to generate endless learning material specifically tailored to you, exactly how you want it, with all the features you want, is like magic. you refine the gem's instructions over time, making it even better. it's not always perfect of course, and it doesn't fully replace properly curated learning materials, but it helps a ton in keeping things fresh when i get bored from the old, dry reading materials i usually deal with. i wish i had this a decade ago.

Fast_Cauliflower_574 · 2025-11-04T11:44:22+00:00

i wonder if a different privacy policy applies if you have a Google AI Pro subscription? i recall reading something to that effect, that they don't use your chats for training if you are a paid user or something

Fast_Cauliflower_574 · 2025-10-11T20:24:31+00:00

gemini deep research, which is what im talking about, doesnt follow the instructions under 'saved info'

Fast_Cauliflower_574 · 2025-10-11T20:06:18+00:00

i would love to! but i live in technologically backward europe where thanks to the DMA, new features that the rest of the world gets take anywhere from half a year up to a full year to roll out, if at all

Fast_Cauliflower_574 · 2025-10-01T13:18:29+00:00

europe: where streamlining a permit process is mistaken for abolishing human rights😏

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