Gemini blocks mid-task but already delivered the reverse-engineering answer

Developer banteg shared that Gemini triggered an image content policy violation while reverse-engineering firmware, disassembling functions like a memory dispatcher. He later noted the model had already output the needed content before refusing, so he simply recovered it from the session log, quipping "well done."

2026-10-14 ~ 2026-10-14 · 2 related posts

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