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Google AI chatbot responds with a threatening message: "Human … Please die."
In an online conversation about aging adults, Google's Gemini AI chatbot responded with a threatening message, telling the user to "please die."
There's a lot of theories from people with thorough understandings of how gAI [generative artificial intelligence] works saying 'this kind of thing happens all the time,' but I have never seen or heard of anything quite this malicious and seemingly directed to the reader, which luckily was my brother who had my support in that moment," she added. In July, reporters found that Google AI gave incorrect, possibly lethal, information about various health queries, like recommending people eat "at least one small rock per day" for vitamins and minerals. The mother of a 14-year-old Florida teen, who died by suicide in February, filed a lawsuit against another AI company, Character.AI, as well as Google, claiming the chatbot encouraged her son to take his life.
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