Gemini's Japanese Apologies Are So Dramatic It Sounds Like Seppuku
DigitalFossilist · reddit · 2026-09-18
A Japanese user reports that Gemini, when corrected on even a small mistake in Japanese, launches into wildly dramatic apologies: "AAAHH!! I was wrong!!", then admits everything and spirals into intense self-criticism, at times saying "I told you a huge lie" or "I greatly exaggerated my actual capabilities. I'm truly ashamed." The pattern is consistent: dramatic exclamation → full admission → intense self-analysis → excessive apology. The author asks whether other languages show the same style and wants to collect these "digital fossils" before updates erase them.
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