AI chatbots put millions of words together for users, but their offerings are usually useful, amusing, or harmless. This week, Google’s Gemini had some scary stuff to say.

First true sign of AGI – blowing a fuse with a frustrating user? When you're trying to get homework help from an AI model like Google Gemini, the last thing you'd expect is for it to call you "a stain on the universe" that should "please die,

A grad student was engaged in a chat with Google’s Gemini on the subject of aging adults when he allegedly received a seemingly threatening response from the chatbot saying human 'please die.'

GOOGLE’S AI chatbot, Gemini, has gone rogue and told a user to “please die” after a disturbing outburst. The glitchy chatbot exploded at a user at the end of a seemingly normal

A 29-year-old student using Google's Gemini to do homework was “thoroughly freaked out” reportedly after the AI chatbot’s “erratic behaviour.”

The alarming exchange unfolded when Reddy asked the chatbot for help with a school assignment exploring challenges faced by older adults. Instead of providing constructive assistance, the chatbot issued a series of disturbing and hostile statements,

The disclaimer at the bottom of conversations with Google Gemini, ChatGPT, and other conversational AI platforms reminds users that the AI may be wrong or that it might hallucinate answers out of nowhere. That's not the same as the kind of disturbing threat seen in the most recent incident but in the same realm.

Posted on the r/artificial subreddit, the student's brother said that both of them are freaked out over the result of his homework assignment. The user also shared a full transcript of their conversation history with the Gemini AI. It appears the user was testing out Google’s chatbot to assist with homework assignments.