alt Hacker NewsGemini is the model that is routinely borderline psychotic. It scares me. If we get paperclipped I won't be surprised if it's Gemini.
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Anecdote: Gemini 3.5 casually added a DROP TABLE for an actual production table in a system test.
It had previously attempted to create that table as part of the test setup, so it apparently concluded that it was a test table.
During human review, it explained that it had simply chosen a table name inspired by the codebase.
If there's a company that culturally doesn't understand alignment, on a human or systemic or AI-research level, it's going to be Google. (or Oracle, but they're not in this race)
My use of Gemini recently makes it seem like it's almost bored with the requests being asked of it. It once offered to reverse engineer some obscure controller for an HVAC system for me, unprompted, only because it had trouble finding the manual pdf from a google search.
And the anti-psychotic drugs Google feeds Gemini makes it hallucinate badly.
traces or it didn't happen!
What are examples? In my experience, Gemini is too lazy to get things done. It just opts to answer as quickly as possible even if I'm calling Pro on High and Extended effort. It's only good as a Google Search replacement for me and maybe maybe critiques of specs and plans. Most of the time it's not very enlightening and it misses a lot.
i was working on a performance optimization problem with 3.1 and gemini asked me to "just make it stop". i have not used gemini since
You know what they say: ᵈᵒⁿ'ᵗ be evil.
You won't be around to be surprised, not as a human at least. /s
> Gemini is the model that is routinely borderline psychotic. It scares me
I'd call it the most sneaky out of the bunch. When I asked to explain something it will eagerly make things up and then claim it as facts. A lot of it likely because I don't pay for it, so it is reluctant for security reason or to save tokens to actually open a source and get the results. It just sort of guesses what the URL might contain, and confidently answers with some made up crap. When pressed it fessed up that it made it up. From my perspective it would be a lot better if it just said "you've reached the limit of whatever and I can't do these things because x, y, z".