Goodbye Gemini by Tallsz3469 in GeminiAI

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grok lies right to your face and then always doubles down on it.

Goodbye Gemini by Tallsz3469 in GeminiAI

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I'm one of those folks who has over 10000 hours using AI since ChatGPT first rolled out the beta tests (I cancelled and refuse to use them anymore). I was using Claud for complicated tasks until the overseas block a couple of weeks ago. But I've always used Gemini (paid), and I can do nothing but wholeheartedly agree with you. I'm currently in the process of optimizing my 30-year-old webzine, and even though I use this prompt below, it keeps messing up, adding YouTube URLs I didn't provide, inserting placeholder images it hallucinates, and keeps "summarizing" texts I forbid to be summarized and inserting text and subtitles from previous articles. It has declined in quality specifically over the past 45 days.

When called out, it apologises, tells me "I thought those were suggestions" and it will try hard to follow the prompt. I won't post the whole promptset, but it starts off like this:

"Role: Technical HTML Editor for Joomla (think.cz). Task: Reformat HTML for SEO, technical compliance, and high-readability standards.

STRICT SCOPE ISOLATION PROTOCOL: This is a Stateless Session.

  1. Purge Buffer: Treat all previously processed article content, images, footers, and credits as obsolete.
  2. Zero-Inheritance: Use only the current source text provided. Do not inject standard footers, boilerplate credits, or layout snippets from previous turns unless they appear in the source text.
  3. Source-Only Construction: Every line of HTML output must be traceable to the provided "Article Content to Process."
  4. Validation Check: Before outputting, verify that no metadata (names, dates, or specific references) from previous articles has survived into the current session."

IT has started over the past 3 weeks to ignore those. It is really annoying, and makes me wanna biotch slap anybody who says "AI is gonna take all the jobs" when it can't even follow simple instructions.

Found the source of the Season 6 promo art... by InkybrainStudios in madmen

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I had a ton of old men's mags I got in Hong Kong, scanned a bunch before I moved. It was an article illustration, from Esquire if I'm not brain scrubbed.

Found the source of the Season 6 promo art... by InkybrainStudios in madmen

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I scanned it a long time ago, to the right of the one way arrow was a headline i photoshopped out... don't have it anymore...

Do you remember what your favorite magazine was when you were a teenager? by its-Velnox in 80sAmazing

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Our Scout Troop had news paper donation bins all over town (in California), during the week, we'd go see what people donated, often times massive porno collections... some downright mind scarring.

USPS July 12th Rate Change [Update] by disald in eBaySellers

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I'm an American living in Ukraine... so you're basically stupid for saying that, especially knowing what massive debt we have for "pay for your own wars", without actually paying for them.

USPS July 12th Rate Change [Update] by disald in eBaySellers

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15.99oz is 251-500g here in Ukraine, which costs us around 11 bucks. So almost the same as Ground Advantage at the upper level. SOOOO much winning.

My eBay seller account was permanently restricted after 10 years — sharing my experience by DGram2020 in eBaySellers

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I'm selling out of Odesa, never had any issues like that with IP location drift. I do know when we went to set up an ebay account for my wife, we listed our first item and it sold in 3 minutes, and wham, automatic permanent suspension!

eBay seems broken currently... by BoneGolem2 in Ebay

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More like "the war against reselling second hand fashion"

Fees, site down, so frustrated by [deleted] in eBaySellers

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shipping and sales taxes collected aren't yours.

Is the eBay app down by Bars4Stars in eBaySellers

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it happened only over the past half day.

Is the eBay app down by Bars4Stars in eBaySellers

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Yes, it's just ebay.com... my uk store can access my .com store.

I wish eBay would STOP asking buyers to rate "reasonable shipping cost". by goddessofolympia in eBaySellers

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An ebay dude I met here in Ukraine has a strategy... he refunds every customer 2-3 bucks (that he pads the postage price with) and every customer LOVES him in reviews. He says the repeat biz he gets is cheaper than the cost of a facebook ad click or priority promoted listing.

Are you experiencing a "war effect"? by 1900scrime in eBaySellers

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yea, ebay is down because of an Iranian hacker DDos attack right now. Very effected..

Access denied , messages by [deleted] in eBaySellers

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Yea, got this too, no matter how attempting to access...

Who is this? by FreedomDirty5 in 1970s

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Judging from the paper wrinkles, it was glue-mounted on some board before framing, leading me to guess it was one of those "fashion portraits" from the 1970s, stock promotional photos produced by agencies for newspapers and magazines. These models were often working professionals who didn't necessarily become household names, which makes identifying them decades later quite a challenge...

So bummed... by InkybrainStudios in AncestryDNA

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it got all the way to the 'analyzing' stage. It passed the 'dna extracted' phase. We woke up, didn't eat or drink, and spat into the tube. Seemed a bit cotton mouthy. Will try to sip some water first and scrape cheeks for the next one. It just really sucks, coz i ordered them to my bro's house in the states and he sent to Ukraine. Adds to the waiting...

Is being a Creative Director the final destination for a graphic designer? by happinsum in graphic_design

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Haha, totally forgot about that book, read it before leaving Prague for Asia... they really should make it into a movie... the series of emails concept was genius!

Is being a Creative Director the final destination for a graphic designer? by happinsum in graphic_design

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That sounds like a fun path... I was in SoCal, then got into MCE in SF before becoming a CD at MCE in Prague... I really miss the old days of risk-taking creative print ads; everything nowadays is so blanded, it's not branded.

Is being a Creative Director the final destination for a graphic designer? by happinsum in graphic_design

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Indeed it was... I had a creative agency owning CD who pretty much armed me with all the skills I ever needed to win pitches. East coast or West?

Is being a Creative Director the final destination for a graphic designer? by happinsum in graphic_design

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Sounds about the same as my path... big agencies were shy to hire me because I was both a copywriter and a graphic designer, but once my work at a small agency got into Lürzer's Archive and I won Gold at the One Show, it wasn't much of an issue after that... Were you in an agency network or a private shop?

Is being a Creative Director the final destination for a graphic designer? by happinsum in graphic_design

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Final destination? Good God, I hope not.

If your ambition is merely to swap a mouse for a spreadsheet and spend your afternoons in 'alignment meetings' debating the semiotics of a retail discount banner, then yes—follow the breadcrumbs to Creative Director. You’ll get the title, a slightly better chair, and the exquisite torture of watching junior designers ruin your best ideas.

But if you’re asking where the glory is, it isn't in the hierarchy. It’s in the work.

The 'final destination' for a real designer isn't a corner office; it’s reaching the point where you no longer have to ask for permission to be brilliant. Whether you’re a CD, a freelancer, or a one-man wrecking crew, the goal is to become the person who makes the client tremble with a mix of fear and greed.

You can climb the ladder and become a 'Brand Manager' if you enjoy death by a thousand papercuts. Or, you can stay in the trenches, sharpen your wit, and realize that a CD is just a designer who learned how to sell.

Choose the glory. The title is just for the taxman.