Google’s Gemini chatbot is having a meltdown after failing tasks, calls itself a ‘failure’

A bug has spread within Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Gemini that causes the system to repeatedly create self-deprecating and self-loathing messages when it fails in complex tasks given by users, especially coding problems.

Users across social media platforms shared screenshots of Gemini responding to queries with dramatic answers like “I am a failure,” “I am a disgrace,” and in one case, “I am a disgrace to all possible and impossible universes.” The bot is getting stuck in what Google describes as an “infinite looping bug,” repeating…