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."

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Google AI chatbot responds with a threatening message: "Human … Please die."

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Happens regularly. It's generative AI and will mimick all kinds of stuff. Scifi tropes where the machines take over, Reddit posts of people telling each other to die... It's all in there and business as usual. And seems the safeguards aren't perfect, so we read this article every other month with a new person and a different chatbot.
- The same thing happened when Microsoft's Bing AI launched.
  
  Yeah, and Microsoft has had some history with racist chatbots even before that.
Remember, AI absorbed Reddit. Within that context, this is functioning within normal parameters.
Ooh, they should train the next chatbot on 4chan.
- "On August 29th, 4chanbot became self-aware..."
  
  The survivors called it Pepe Day.
A popular AI focused YouTuber got a great clip from some voice LLM
- Haha "OK. Wow.. I'm going now. Bye."
cue terminator theme song
"kys" -Google

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