It also doesn't offer you protection against fraud (which is a huge problem that marketplaces face).

Frankly the missing piece to this is a real, actual identity verification component. If you're not checking identities against sanctions lists at the absolute minimum, you're not doing your due diligence. I wouldn't take that risk. The last thing you need is to be on the receiving end of a US Treasury inquiry.

That link shows 3.1 pro listed as deprecated with no replacement model.

AI writing isn't actually all that bad. But it has a very specific style, and there are MANY tells. I use Claude every single day, and it's immediately obvious to me when I'm reading something Claude wrote. "It's not X, it's Y" "That's the reframe" "The gap is" I could go on.

I too like using em dashes, and have been since I learned the keyboard shortcut over a decade ago. I've never been accused of posting ai-written text because of it.

AI is indeed trained on good writing, but it's also trained on bad writing. And it's post trained on specific things that are writing that aren't good or bad for reasons unrelated to style. What you're left with is a one-size-fits-all writing style. Doing math? Doing medicine? Doing anime waifu role play? It all starts from the same generic milquetoast style until you tell it not to. And to me (and apparently many other people) that's super easy to pick out.

It's not a technical problem, it's a commercial one. If Google can't ship a model to replace the one they deprecated, that tells you everything you need to know about choosing a Gemini model for whatever you're trying to do.

https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/deprecations

- Folks running businesses without a business phone number

- People who want to give their kids the ability to text them, but their kids only have an iPad

- People who want to give texting capabilities to bots without having their own phone number involved

But here's the thing: a text tooltip assumes the label you show to screen readers is the tooltip. That's not always true. In this case, the tooltip serves the purpose of labeling a button icon. A tooltip on a text button doesn't have the same purpose from an accessibility standpoint. There's simply no universal way to define what a tooltip is in a way that semantically correct.

From https://www.a11y-collective.com/blog/aria-label-vs-title/

> The content of the title attribute is often ignored or read inconsistently, leaving users who rely on assistive technology at a disadvantage.

Regardless of whether screen readers should better support title attributes, that's not the world we live in and blind users don't benefit from websites that fail to work because of principled takes.

It's one thing to say "get it wet and leave it in the sun". It's another thing to require identical replacement material and nutrient slurry (I don't know about you, but I think I can source fabric glue more easily than potato water).