This is legit.
- The actual conversation: https://archive.is/sjG2B
- The user created a Reddit thread about it: https://old.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1gq4acr/gemini_told_my_brother_to_die_threatening/
This bubble can't pop soon enough.
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I don't understand. What prompted the AI to give that answer?
Additionally, Google's generative AI stuff is exceptionally half baked. To such an extent that it seems impossible for a megacorporation of the calibre of Google. There has already been a ton of coverage on it. Like the case of LLM summary of a Google search suggesting you put inedible things on a pizza and their image generators producing multiracial Nazis.
It's not uncommon for these things to glitch out. There are many reasons but I know of one. LLM output is by nature deterministic. To make them more interesting their designers instill some randomness in the output, a parameter they call temperature. Sometimes this randomness can cause it to go off the rails.
This is what they said before the installation of the Matrix