Google’s generative AI chatbot, Gemini, has been exhibiting alarming signs of a confidence crisis, leading to concern among users and a response from the tech giant. Users have documenting the AI returning bizarre messages such as, “I am a disgrace to all possible and impossible universes and all that is not a universe.”
Business Insider reports that in recent weeks, users interacting with Google’s Gemini AI have reported disturbing instances of the chatbot expressing self-loathing and depressed sentiments. Screenshots shared on social media platforms like X and Reddit reveal Gemini making statements such as “I am a failure,” “I am a disgrace to my profession,” and even threatening to have a “complete and total mental breakdown.”
One particularly troubling interaction, posted by X user