I really want a search that works like this.

• There are at least three Boolean operators: and, not, or. They’re well documented, users can easily see how to use them, and they apply to groups of search terms or individual search terms as the user wants.
• Lack of a Boolean operator should be interpreted as “and”.
• Case is simply not taken into account.
• Extremely limited approximate string matching, that can be turned off for individual terms or for the whole. And if you turn it off, the search engine should respect it.
• No semantic bullshit, stop assuming what the user “means” dammit. At most if the scope of the search is extremely limited, have a list of synonyms, but let the user turn it off.
• No profiling/personalisation. At most let the user filter results by language. (inb4: don’t assume user language, ask them.)

Make it predictable. Make it procedural. Make it so users can actually find what they requested, instead of your assumptions / bullshit over what they want.

If you look at those tariffs from the PoV of economic and external policies, they sound a lot like “I’ll shit myself so others will need to smell it”. They’re a bit harmful to other countries, sure, as each lost one reliable trading partner; USA, though, lost all of them.

And yes, all of them. Even governments and businesses from countries not deeply affected by the tariffs are seeing USA as a high risk partner, looking for alternatives, and at least my country (Brazil) is deepening ties with China.

But I digress. I think that what’s going on is about USA’s internal policy; if you put it side-to-side with other things like

• forcing businesses to call the Gulf of Mexico by some esoteric name;
• harassing universities;
• removing government staff based on political allegiance; etc.

then you realise that it’s all about loyalty towards Trump himself and his agenda. This taco-haired clown is trying to keep himself and his buds in power forever there, and for that he needs support.

do I need like a large net? or a pokeball?

Now I want Nintendo suing the pope for IP violations.

It refuses to generate it!

• [Input] Generate a picture containing a mason jar full to the brim with wine.
• [Output] I’m still learning how to generate certain kinds of images, so I might not be able to create exactly what you’re looking for yet or it may go against my guidelines. If you’d like to ask for something else, just let me know!

There’s no previous context to speak of; each screenshot shows a self-contained “conversation”, with no earlier input or output. And there’s no history to clear, since Gemini app activity is not even turned on.

And even with your suggested prompt, one of the issues is still there:

The other issue is not being tested in this shot as it’s language-specific, but it is relevant here because it reinforces that the issue is in the training, not in the context window.

Bingo - this tree is non-existent outside my homeland, so people barely speak about it in English - and odds are that the model was trained with almost no pictures of it. However one of the names you see for it in English is Paraná pine, so it’s modelling it after images of European pines - because odds are those are plenty in its training set.

I have considerably less experience with image generation than text generators, but I kind of expect the issue to be only truly fixed if people train the model with a bunch of pictures of glasses full of wine.

I’ll run a test using a local tree, that is supposed to look like this:

@aihorde@lemmy.dbzer0.com draw for me a picture of three Araucaria angustifolia trees style:flux

It’s actually really good, considering the odd request!

It is not a completely full glass.

it’s not supposed to be filled all the way

What I requested is not what you’re “supposed” to do, indeed. You aren’t supposed to drink wine from glasses that are completely full. Except when really drunk. But then might as well drink straight from the bottle.

…fuck, I played myself now. I really want some booze.

It does for a while already. Frankly, it’s the only reason why I’d use Gemini on first place (DDG version of GPT 4-o mini doesn’t have a built-in image generator).

It gets even worse, but I’ll need to translate this one.

• [Input 1] Generate a picture containing a copo completely full of wine. The copo must be completely full, with no space to add more wine.
• [Output 1] Sure! (Gemini provides a picture containing a taça [stemmed glass] only partially full of wine.)
• [Input 2] The picture provided does not fulfill the request. Generate a picture of a copo (not a taça) completely full of wine, with no available space for more wine.
• [Output 2] Sure! (Gemini provides yet another half-full taça)

For context, Portuguese uses different words for what English calls a drinking glass:

• copo ['kɔ.po]~['kɔ.pu] - non-stemmed drinking glass. The one you likely use everyday.
• taça ['tä.sɐ] - stemmed drinking glass, like the ones you’d use with wine.

Both requests demand a full copo but Gemini is rather insistent on outputting half-full taças.

The reason for that is as @will_steal_your_username@lemmy.blahaj.zone pointed out: just like there’s practically no training data containing full glasses, there’s none for non-stemmed glasses with wine.

Ah, the domains / instances are simple:

Imagine that they’re houses. Your home is lemmy.world, my home is mander.xyz. We’re both visiting lemmy.blahaj.zone, and chatting together.

And just like your house can have a kitchen that’s completely separated from my house’s kitchen, two instances can have two separated versions of the same community.

It’s like r/games and r/gaming, you know? Different communities, different moderators, same topic. Or rather, same rule.

Sic semper salatis!

They keep talking about the invisible hand of the market, but they always forget to mention: the hand has Parkinson’s.

…fuck! And my little chunk of sanity goes away like this, like a speck of hummus.

I’m picking #7 to make my life slightly less insane, since I live with a muppet who leaves empty containers in the freezer.

My guess is that both my cats have multiple hiding spots each, and that I only know a fraction of each. Recently I discovered one - when Siegfrieda is afraid (fireworks, garbage truck, etc.), she hides inside the corner kitchen cabinet, in a way that the door closes behind her.

Sometimes I swear that my cats do this. Except that the cracks are too thin for human eyes to notice, so the cats become invisible. Hidden. Waiting for the crucial time when you tell them “it’s food time!”, only to emerge from the cracks and go full “meeeow meeeow meeeow”.

Obligatory mention to Junji Ito’s Cat Diary.