Gemini refuses to answer questions about public domain books like Macbeth
stordyr · reddit · 2026-10-29
A Reddit user found Gemini refusing to answer questions about Macbeth, Hamlet, and A Christmas Carol — all long-public-domain works — with the same refusal message each time, and posted screenshots as proof. The incident suggests Gemini's safety guardrails are over-blocking even classic literature whose copyright expired long ago.
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