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Google Gemini struggles with specific calendar event colorization

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A user reported a peculiar interaction with Google's Gemini AI when attempting to create calendar events. While Gemini successfully set multiple events with different dates and times in a single attempt, it consistently failed to assign a specific color, "Beetroot," to these events, instead choosing arbitrary colors. AI

IMPACT Highlights potential limitations in current AI assistants for nuanced task execution.

RANK_REASON User reports a specific functional limitation in an AI product.

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Google Gemini struggles with specific calendar event colorization

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Weird experience with Google # gemini - getting it to create several calendar events on different days at different times worked great, one shot. But it can't s

    Weird experience with Google # gemini - getting it to create several calendar events on different days at different times worked great, one shot. But it can't successfully set the color of the events to "Beetroot" for love nor money. Every time I ask, it changes the color to some…

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