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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.

In a bizarre reply to a banal request for homework help, Google's Gemini AI chatbot explicitly asked its user to perish.

Disturbing chatbot response prompts Google to pledge strict actions, highlighting ongoing AI safety challenges.

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

In a controversial incident, the Gemini AI chatbot shocked users by responding to a query with a suggestion to 'die.' This has sparked concerns over the chatbot's language, its potential harm to users' mental health,

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,

In an online conversation about aging adults, Google's Gemini AI chatbot responded with a threatening message, telling the user to "please die."

A Google-made artificial intelligence program verbally abused a student seeking help with their homework, ultimately telling her to “Please die.” The shocking response from Google’s Gemini chatbot large language model (LLM) terrified 29-year-old Sumedha Reddy of Michigan — as it called her a “stain on the universe.