{
  "id": 17941630,
  "title": "Google has a growing Gemini problem that readers find hard to ignore",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/03/google-has-a-growing-gemini-problem-that-readers-find-hard-to-ignore",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-11-03T09:19:08.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Android Authority",
    "slug": "android-authority",
    "url": "https://www.androidauthority.com/google-gemini-getting-worse-poll-results-3730986/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Google's Gemini artificial intelligence system is facing criticism as users report that its performance and quality have declined in recent months. Reddit threads and Google's own polling indicate that over 60% of respondents believe the AI model has gotten \"dumber\" or \"stupider,\" with nearly two-thirds of those users also expressing frustration with the service. In a recent poll, 65% of respondents reported experiencing a decline, while 20% said they did not notice any change. Commenters on forums have noted that Gemini's responses are less comprehensive and that the tool is now configured to use less compute power, resulting in reduced performance. Some users have even switched to competing AI services, such as Claude Code, finding them to be vastly superior. While some users still find Gemini useful, a significant portion of the user base appears dissatisfied with its current capabilities.",
  "summary": "More and more users are calling out Gemini's apparent decline.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 4,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "IOL",
        "title": "Local Government Elections: I turned to Google Gemini for advice, and this is what it told me",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/01/local-government-elections-i-turned-to-google-gemini-for-advice-and",
        "published": "2026-11-01T05:00:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Android Police",
        "title": "After testing it on 100 photos, Google Photos' new Gemini integration is both good and horrible",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/01/after-testing-it-on-100-photos-google-photos-new-gemini-integration",
        "published": "2026-11-01T13:45:10.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Tom's Hardware",
        "title": "Google reveals new Gemini 4 Carbon AI model, narrowly beating Claude Opus 5.5 — frontier AI model is also the least likely to hallucinate, benchmarks claim",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/03/google-reveals-new-gemini-4-carbon-ai-model-narrowly-beating-claude",
        "published": "2026-11-03T13:00:00.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}