Google AI chatbot responds with a threatening message

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."
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, "Please die. Please."
Why it Matters That Google’s AI Gemini Chatbot Made Death Threats to a Grad Student
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Google Gemini tells grad student to 'please die' while helping with his homework
When you're trying to get homework help from an AI model like Google Gemini, the last thing you'd expect is for it to call you "a stain on the universe" that should "please die," yet here we are, assuming the conversation published online this week is accurate.
Google AI chatbot threatens student asking for homework help, saying: ‘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.”
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's AI chatbot Gemini verbally abuses student, tells him ‘Please die’: report
A 29-year-old student using Google's Gemini to do homework was “thoroughly freaked out” reportedly after the AI chatbot’s “erratic behaviour.”
Google AI bot tells user they’re a ‘drain on the Earth’ and begs them to ‘please die’ in disturbing outburst
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AI Chatbot Allegedly Alarms User with Unsettling Message: Human 'Please Die'
A grad student was engaged in a chat with Google’s Gemini on the subject of aging adults when he allegedly received a seemingly threatening response from the chatbot saying human 'please die.'
"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."
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Asked for Homework Help, Gemini AI Has a Disturbing Suggestion: 'Please Die'
A Michigan grad student receives an alarming message from Google's AI while researching data for a gerontology class.