deprecated-generative-ai-js

One thing I dislike regards to SSE, which is not its fault but probably a side effect of the perceived simplicity: lots of developers do not actually use proper implementations and instead just parse the data chunks with regex, or something of the sorts! This is bad because SSE, for example, supports comments (": text") in streams, which most of those hand-rolled implementations don't support. For example, my friend used an LLM proxy that sends keepalive/queue data as SSE comments (just for debugging mainly), but it didn't work for Gemini, because someone at Google decided to parse SSE with a regex: https://github.com/google-gemini/generative-ai-js/blob/main/... (and yes, if the regex doesn't match the complete line, the library will just throw an error)

When you did this, I am assuming you cut the audio off around 5 mins? https://github.com/google-gemini/generative-ai-js/issues/269...

I’ve used it. The API is incredibly buggy and flakey. A particular pain point is the “recitation error” fiasco. If you’re developing a real world app this basically makes the Gemini api unusable. It strikes me as a kind of “Potemkin” service. Google is aware of the issue and it has been open on google's bug tracker since March 2024: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/331677495 There is also discussion on GitHub: https://github.com/google-gemini/generative-ai-js/issues/138 It stems from something google added intentionally to prevent copyright material being returned verbatim (ala the NYT openai fiasco), so they dialled up the "recitation" control (the act of repeating training data—and maybe data they should not have legally trained on). Here are some quotes from the bug tracker page: > I got this error by just asking "Who is Google?