Vincent Conitzer shares AI fail: Gemini spirals over who can reach a massage therapist's back
conitzer · x · 2026-11-06
AI researcher Vincent Conitzer shared a funny failure on his "Funny AI fails" Substack: asked whether the massage therapist or the client can more easily reach the therapist's own back, Gemini spiraled into a long self-correcting reasoning loop over anatomy and professional boundaries, finally asking if the question was a riddle or a joke—overcomplicating a trivial prompt.
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