Why does it need that?
They need a place to store data, Google Drive is a place for that. Have you used NotebookLM or such which do the same sort of thing?
- "See and download all your Google Drive files."
Yes.
More specifically, I trust Google not to use my files to train its AI if I haven't given permission, but I don't trust Google not to use Opal as a way to get me to give them permission without realising.
Expecting permissions to my entire Google Drive is ridiculous. Yes, I tried not granting that permission (and only granting permission to an app-specific path) and it specifically told me I have to grant full permission . I closed the tab.
The gotcha is the permission scope can be pretty broad (read/write or metadata across Drive), so it’s worth checking what you actually granted.
Do this make an actual production Flutter app or something?
I’m surprised to see Google directing people to Discord, do they do that for other products?
Just goes to show that google's attempts at chat have been a big flop and even though google chat exists they don't use it.
The amount of data on the web crossed the threshold of organic discoverability some time before the AI boom started. AI makes it go from really bad to really, really bad (99% to 99.99%). As far as I am concerned it doesn't change anything.
The same mechanisms to find good content would work today as well - following humans and networks.
Google may deliver us the AI future Altman promised. The PM who thinks animated PNGs pass for anything real is not on that path.
They'll just see whats popular and then clone, launch and instantly own verticals.
It's over for the little SaaS guys.
They have all the potential but have lost direction years ago.
I think they will stay relevant but not dominant, much like the case of Google meet.
Claude is still used but only in IDEs for coding, I don't ask it general questions anymore.
I use Gemma as a developer for basic on-device LLM tasks such as structured JSON output.
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