Google Sheets AI struggles with basic deduplication task

By PulseAugur Editorial · [1 sources] · 2026-05-14 23:06

A user expressed surprise and disappointment with Google Sheets' built-in AI capabilities, finding it struggled with a basic task. The AI required four attempts to correctly deduplicate a row, leading the user to describe the experience as "absolutely awful" for such a simple function. AI

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I was very surprised today when I attempted to have Google's built-in AI in Sheets perform a simple task like, "dedupe this row". It took 4 tries until it final

I was very surprised today when I attempted to have Google's built-in AI in Sheets perform a simple task like, "dedupe this row". It took 4 tries until it finally got it right. I'm honestly in shock at how absolutely awful the experience was for something so simple. # AI # AISUCK…

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I was very surprised today when I attempted to have Google's built-in AI in Sheets perform a simple task like, "dedupe this row". It took 4 tries until it final

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