Gemini glitches into endlessly spamming the word 'shame'
tugkanintassagi · reddit · 2026-09-11
A Reddit user reports Gemini suddenly looping and endlessly outputting the word 'shame' until they hit the stop button. When asked what happened, the model blamed a 'token loop glitch' — but why it fixated on that particular word remains a mystery.
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