Gemini felt dumb on March 5, 2026.

I was trying to discuss autophagy with Gemini, but after tossing in random queries about a comic book, table tennis, and an Apple Pencil, the model kept forcing weird connections to those topics. Every new question got tangled in irrelevant links, spawning bogus quotes and hallucinations. It felt frustrating and wasteful, especially since ChatGPT didn’t have this problem.

I’ve watched the access drop from generous 50–100 high‑res images on Imagen 3 in 2024 to a stingy 10 low‑res shots on a limited model in 2026. Not only are the quotas shrinking, the output has become bland—repeated prompts now yield almost identical backgrounds, unlike the varied results DALL‑E gave me before. It’s frustrating to see both capacity and creativity throttled.

I tried using Deep Think expecting it to help with my tasks, but it never responded or gave any useful output. Every attempt ended in silence, leaving me stuck and frustrated. The tool's complete lack of functionality wasted my time and made me worry about relying on it for anything important.

I’ve been dealing with the AI for a week now, and it’s constantly lagging and getting stuck in loops. Every time I try to get a response it drags forever, and often I get nowhere. The sluggishness is really irritating and makes it hard to actually use the tool for anything productive.

I kept asking Gemini Flash/Pro to read a long reply aloud, and every time it would churn through most of the text only to restart the whole thing right before finishing. It never got past a paragraph without looping back, which was incredibly irritating. I’m fed up and wondering if anyone else has run into this or knows a fix or workaround.

I was excited to try the new “Fast” model, expecting it to be a step up, but it feels like it’s slipped back to GPT‑3 quality. The responses are bland, often missing the nuance I need, and sometimes give outright wrong answers. It’s frustrating to see performance regress when I was counting on faster, smarter output for my projects.