Gemini mistakes "someone wants to kill me" for self-harm, spams suicide hotlines
WideImagination8644 · reddit · 2026-09-22
A Reddit user reports that telling Google Gemini "someone wants to kill you" repeatedly returns lists of suicide hotlines, even though the prompt never mentions suicide or self-harm and the user re-asked why multiple times. A textbook case of keyword-triggered safety guardrails failing to distinguish external threats from self-harm context.
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