“A small rodent, chipmunk, and hamster were noted on a blue rug at various times throughout the day, often near the cats.” This isn’t the beginning of a children’s picture book. It’s a summary by Google Gemini about everything that supposedly went on in my living room last week.Only, there was no rodent. Or cats, plural. I also don’t have the dog that Gemini spots almost daily. This isn’t TikTok, and I’m not Snow White. Earlier this year Google announced that its AI, named Gemini, would become part of all of its smart-home products. Already Gemini has been added to Google’s Nest security cameras, and I’ve been testing it for three weeks in the recently released Google Nest Cam Indoor (Wired, 3rd Gen), the Google Nest Cam Outdoor (Wired, 2nd Gen), and the Google Nest Doorbell (Wired, 3rd Gen). Experiencing a new level of intensely close monitoring — and the AI-hallucination chaos that ended up snowballing — left me slightly creeped out. And I’m more than a little annoyed that Google seems to expect me, and other camera owners, to do the hard work of training Gemini, while paying for my own labor.