Google’s Gemini threatened one user (or possibly the entire human race) during one session, where it was seemingly being used to answer essay and test questions, and asked the user to die. Because of its seemingly out-of-the-blue response, u/dhersie shared the screenshots and a link to the Gemini conversation on r/artificial on Reddit.

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.

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A Michigan student was left deeply disturbed after receiving an unexpected and frightening response from Google’s Gemini, the company’s AI chatbot.

A graduate student in the U.S. was left horrified after Google's AI chatbot, Gemini, responded to a query about elderly care with shocking and harmful comments, including telling him to "Please die." Google acknowledged the incident,

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