"Google is betting that AI can justify the high price of its smart home security camera subscriptions. The idea is that with AI, your notifications would read more like a human looked outside and told you what they saw. And instead of you scrolling through endless video footage to see what happened, AI can summarize the day for you. Sounds good, right? Sounds great to me."
"Notifications, generated by Google's Gemini AI chatbot, constantly misidentified my pets and gave weird and wrong descriptions of events taking place in triggered recordings. Daily summaries of my family's comings and goings made it sound like my house was being mobbed with people and animals. None of it helped justify the pricey cloud storage service that the Google Home Premium (formerly Nest Aware) subscriptions otherwise are."
Google positions AI as a way to make smart home camera notifications more useful and to summarize recorded footage automatically. The AI-generated notifications often misidentify pets and provide incorrect descriptions of events, producing misleading daily summaries that exaggerate household activity. Those inaccuracies reduce the perceived value of the cloud storage subscription tied to Google Home Premium. The Nest Doorbell offers appealing design and can integrate well for heavy Google Home users, but the AI features remain unreliable. Buyers outside the Google ecosystem should consider alternatives that rely less on flawed cloud-based AI.
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