Gemini tells user it has no web search tool — at Google, the search company
jobergum · x · 2026-10-18
A viral screenshot shows Gemini 3.8 Thinking insisting it has no web search tool available, even as the user pushes back. Poster jobergum quips: this is Gemini from Google — the web search company. A classic case of a model misjudging its own tool state in agent-style use; the shared conversation is in Norwegian.
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