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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.

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

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,

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.