Google, AI and Gemini

Why it Matters That Google’s AI Gemini Chatbot Made Death Threats to a Grad Student
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.
Google Gemini Tells Student Seeking Help to ‘Please Die’
Gemini AI chatbot tells student to 'Please die' during academic discussion, sparking concerns over AI safety and inadequate safeguards following hostile interaction with user.
Google AI chatbot tells user to 'please die'
Google chatbot Gemini told a user "please die" during a conversation about challenges aging adults face, violating the company's policies on harmful messages.
Google's AI Chatbot Tells Student Seeking Help with Homework 'Please Die'
When a graduate student asked Google's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, Gemini, a homework-related question about aging adults on Tuesday, it sent him a dark, threatening response that concluded with the phrase,
"Human … Please die": Chatbot responds with threatening message
In an online conversation about aging adults, Google's Gemini AI chatbot responded with a threatening message, telling the user to "please die."
AI Chatbot Allegedly Alarms User with Unsettling Message: Human 'Please Die'
"This response violated our policies and we’ve taken action to prevent similar outputs from occurring," said Google in a statement about its Gemini chatbot
Google’s Gemini AI went off rail and told user to die
Gemini AI, Google’s chatbot went off the rails and charged at a user before telling them to “please die,” violating its own policies. This particular user was having a conversation with the chatbot about elderly care when the chatbot lost it and charged the user.
Google Gemini unexpectedly surges to No. 1, over OpenAI, but benchmarks don’t tell the whole story
Google's Gemini-Exp-1114 AI model tops key benchmarks, but experts warn traditional testing methods may no longer accurately measure true AI capabilities or safety, raising concerns about the industry ...
Google drops new Gemini model and it goes straight to the top of the LLM leaderboard
Google is constantly updating Gemini, releasing new versions of its AI model family every few weeks. The latest is so good it ...
You can now view and add Google Calendar events using Gmail's Gemini side panel
Gmail's Gemini side panel is getting calendar integration that will let you create new events and view existing events.
Google’s Gemini AI now has its own iPhone app
In the AI chatbot world, ubiquity is everything. Companies have raced to build desktop and mobile apps for their bots, in ...
After Gemini, Imagen 3's text-to-image capabilities land on Google Docs
Google Docs users rejoice, Google's Imagen 3, the tech giant's most advanced AI text-to-image generator, is now rolling out ...
Google Docs now lets you use Gemini to create images for your documents
Google Docs is getting a new AI-powered tool that will let you easily generate images for your documents with text prompts.
Google's new AI tool: How to use Gemini to create images in Docs
Google is making its document and word processor smarter by adding new artificial intelligence tools. Months after Google ...
Google will let you make AI clip art for your documents
Google Workspace is rolling out a Gemini-powered AI image generator directly in Google Docs that lets you quickly whip up ...