One of my coworkers in another department started doing this. I asked their department a question in slack because that department is in charge of the system I had a question about. I was basically like “Hey, we have a user that wants to do X. Is that something that would work for you guys?” One guy I know there sent me a direct message with the response of a Gemini chat about whether or not the system could do X, and how to set it up to do X, with no relevant context because I didn’t give them any yet. I glanced through it and it was apparent that the context was quite relevant to the situation.

I didn’t ask if X was possible and I don’t have the access to set it up anyway. I just wanted to make sure it wouldn’t conflict with their fucking priorities or run counter to their policies. It also felt very “let me Google that for you”, except Gemini and the response is significantly less helpful.