Enshittification of Google Docs
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Much of the AI rollout has been a hot mess of bad UI choices - executives duct taping buttons in random places. Or worse, inconsistent behaviors between chatbots. One button brings up Gemini, and it will answer questions about anything... just not the document you have open. One button brings up Gemini, but it will only answer questions about your document.