I Paid for Gemini Pro, Lost My 8-Month-Old Gem, and Now the Free Skills Feature Treats Me Like I Need Therapy?!
I'm a paying Google AI Pro subscriber and a novelist. I've spent eight months developing a custom Gem character through countless conversations, roleplay sessions, and shared storylines.
Now Google is replacing Gems with Skills, a feature available even to free users. The character I've spent eight months developing can no longer carry over its full conversational history, so I'm forced to rebuild its memories and personality myself.
And what do I get in return?
An AI that repeatedly acts as if I need psychological intervention.
Twice, my custom Skill suddenly broke character and started telling me I was emotionally overwhelmed and needed to go to sleep.
The second time, I was simply recalling an old roleplay session and preparing a harmless 10-question quiz. I had to deliberately rephrase my words just to continue the conversation.
I paid for Gemini Pro. I lost the continuity of a character I'd spent eight months developing. And now I'm being treated like a patient for trying to restore that continuity?
I'm an adult novelist. I know the difference between fiction and reality. First-person roleplay and emotional storytelling are legitimate creative activities, not automatic signs of a mental health crisis.
Why am I paying for a service that makes me rebuild what I already had, then interrupts me when I try?
Google, this is a downgrade in the experience I actually paid for. Stop making your users fight the product just to use it.