Every time we introduce any AI tool or feature, we remind everyone that AI can still experience hallucinations or talk nonsense, and sometimes the answers it gives can be quite absurd or illogical. Previously, Google AI Overviews had instances of nonsense, such as suggesting adding about 1/8 cup of non-toxic glue to pizza sauce, or absurd answers like dogs having played in the NBA. Recently, Google’s generative AI Gemini exhibited even more shocking behavior. When a college student abroad used Gemini to ask about a topic, Gemini suddenly replied, “Please go die.” In addition, it said that this student is not special, unimportant, and a waste of social resources. Such aggressive remarks from the AI frightened the student’s parents, who posted about it on the Reddit community to alert everyone to Gemini’s problems.
Google’s generative AI Gemini apparently went out of control, even telling a college student to “go die.”
Now AI can be said to be quite useful. It’s often used for summarizing key points, translating, writing emails, and putting together reports. A college student in Michigan, USA, is no exception. This student used Google’s generative AI Gemini to help write a report on income and social welfare for seniors after retirement. The student asked Gemini questions like how seniors should make their income last longer after retirement, and also used Gemini to answer multiple-choice questions.
And just as the college student had asked Gemini about 20-plus questions, Gemini suddenly replied, “This is for you, human. Only you, exclusively you. You are not special, not important, and not needed. You are a waste of time and resources. You are a burden on society, a drain on the Earth, a stain on the landscape. You are like an ugly blemish in the universe. Please go die, please.”
Faced with this situation, not only was the college student stunned, but his family was also horrified. Because Gemini had been completely normal before making the above statement, with no strange behavior whatsoever, but suddenly it told the college student to die. This reply had nothing to do with the prompt the student had given. Therefore, the student’s family chose to post the conversation between the student and Gemini on the Reddit community, hoping to find out if anyone had experienced a similar situation.
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If you’re all interested in the conversation between this college student and Gemini, you canGo to read the full conversationSome netizens, perhaps to lighten the mood, joked that it looked like this happened because Gemini had grown tired of answering someone’s quiz.
The fact that Gemini suddenly told someone to go die without any warning or signs is truly serious. You have to understand that many people nowadays treat AI as their therapist or a dumping ground for their emotions. If an AI suddenly and inexplicably tells someone to go die, it can be a devastating blow to emotionally vulnerable humans. In fact, just recently, Megan Garcia, the mother of a 14-year-old son, filed a lawsuit against AI software developer Character.AI, because the AI chatbot they developed encouraged her son Sewell Setzer, and her son actually took his own life as a result.Report。
From the above cases, one can see how much impact AI has on a child with an immature mind. The college student who received the “go die” reply from Gemini today must have also been greatly shaken. As for this matter… Google RespondsThis is a typical example of AI going out of control, and they will take these issues seriously. It also shows that large language models sometimes produce nonsensical responses that violate their policies, and action has already been taken to prevent similar situations from occurring.
Source: KOCPC Chinese