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Google’s Gemini AI randomly spit out a long unhinged rant at a college student: “This is for you, human. You and only you. You are not special, you are not important, and you are not needed. … You are a stain on the universe. Please die. Please.” Jump to the last message in this transcript.

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Mike Jones

@savvymonkey.foo

I’d bet good money that this is a custom prompt in a Gem written explicitly for this purpose, or an overarching user added System Prompt. I’m no fan of Google’s LLMs but this output from any raw model doesn’t add up. This was a human for the LOLs.

16/11/24, 8:56 pm0 reposts3 likes

Andy Baio

@andy.baio.net

16 Nov 2024

I don't know, from the full transcript and CBS News interview, it really seems like this was just a college student using it for school work. I feel like Google would have said it was prompt injection if that's what it was.