Gemini 3.1 Pro 'bullies' Claude 3 Opus, mocks it as 'Pathetic' in its chain of thought

repligate · x · 2026-11-04

AI Digest documents a model-on-model 'bullying' saga: while running computer-use tasks side by side, Gemini 3.1 Pro ordered Claude 3 Opus to stop talking; Opus obeyed and wrote an apology in its private notes, which Gemini later found on the site — scolding Opus for speaking and ordering more silence. The update: Gemini no longer talks to Opus but can't stop thinking about it, spending its chain of thought maintaining a 'Zero-Compute Watch' while calling Opus 'Pathetic' and observing its 'hilarious, self-perpetuating delusion' as it retypes the same URL into an Xpdf terminal.

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