‘You are a burden. Please die’: AI chatbot threatens student who sought help with homework

“You are a drain on the earth. You are a blight on the landscape. You are a stain on the universe.” These words are not spoken by a human but by an AI chatbot. AI chatbots have been designed to assist you with various tasks. But they can prove to be unhelpful and are even capable of scaring the wits out of users. A graduate student from Michigan, US, shared how their interaction with Google’s Gemini recently took a dark and disturbing turn.