Gemini 3 is pulling the same dynamic downgrade scam that ruined the GPT-5 launch
I'm canceling my Google One AI Premium sub today. This is exactly the same garbage behavior OpenAI pulled, and I'm not falling for it again. We all know the drill by now. You pay for the Pro model, you start a chat, say hi, and it gives you a smart response. But the second you actually try to use the context window you paid for - like pasting a 3k word document or some code - the system silently panics over the compute cost and throttles you. It's a classic bait and switch. Instead of processing that context with the Pro model I'm paying twenty bucks a month for, it clearly kicks me down to a cheaper tier. It feels exactly like when GPT would silently swap users to the mini or light model after a couple of turns or if you pasted too much text. I fed it a 3,000 word PRD for a critique. I ex...








