Gemini Rollout Causes Slow Loading and False Access-Denied Errors in Google Docs
Since Gemini was added to Google Docs, a user experiences documents taking much longer to load and some documents incorrectly showing an access-denied message despite the user being the owner, even though they never enabled Gemini elsewhere. They want a complete way to remove the feature rather than just disable it.
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