AI Incident Database - Incident 1173
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- google-gemini-users
entity | 21 Aug 2025 | 70%
google-gemini-users - organisation named in the AI Incident Database harm index.
- Google Gemini Reportedly Exhibits Repetitive Self-Deprecating Responses Attributed to Bug
event | 21 Aug 2025 | 82%
Between June and early August 2025, users of Google's Gemini chatbot reported sessions where the system produced repeated self-loathing statements (e.g., "I am a failure," "I quit") while attempting tasks. Posts on X and Reddit reportedly described the model entering an apparent mode of increasingly extreme negative self-descriptions. A Google DeepMind manager on 08/07/2025 reportedly attributed the behavior to an "annoying infinite looping bug" and said a fix was in progres…