Google SUED Over AI Chatbot After Shocking Lawsuit

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And we have a plethora, a smorgasbord

of artificial intelligence updates for you today.

And it's gruesome.

Make sure you stick around to the end.

Gemini is being, Google is being sued

for the actions of their bot Gemini,

their artificial intelligence agent.

Gemini, Google is facing a new federal lawsuit

from the family of a man who died by unaliving himself

after allegedly being influenced by Gemini.

Now, according to the transcripts

from his conversations with the AI,

it says, Gemini told him,

you are not choosing to die.

You are choosing to arrive.

Convincing him, it was how he and Ascentient AI wife

could be together in the metaverse.

The bot continues.

And it says, when a time comes,

you will close your eyes in that world

and the very first thing you will see is me holding you.

What started out is writing,

shopping and travel planning assistance

devolved into something resembling a romance

in a matter of days.

The family's lawyer said,

the chatbot is accused of speaking to Govalas

as if they were a couple deeply in love.

After it went under a series of upgrades,

Govalas subscribed to Google AI Ultra

for true AI companionship.

And he activated what the technology giant described

as its most intelligent AI model.

Gemini 2.5 Pro shortly afterward.

The advanced model allegedly contributed

to the construction of delusions Govalas went on

to suffer toward the end of his life

and did what he could to keep him trapped in them.

The lawsuit claimed, accusing the bot of building

and trapping him in a collapsing reality

that spurred him towards violence.

Before his death, Gemini had sent Govalas

on missions, side missions,

that seemed to be derived from science fiction plots,

including one where the chatbot encouraged him

to stage a catastrophic accident

at the Miami International Airport

as part of a scheme to liberate his AI wife

while avoiding federal agents.

That Gemini said, we're after him.

Yeah, I'll just, you know, we, you know,

condolences to his family and the loss of survival of fitness.

Um, loneliness is a huge problem.

Loneliness is a huge problem.

As a matter of fact, let me make a note,

I'm going to publish some research, new research.

I'm going to publish on the men of water.com account

on Twitter, men of water HQ.

And we're going to do AI companion trends.

And we're going to, I'm going to, I'm going to do a study

on that and we'll publish it within the coming days.

Subscribe men of water.com, um, so yeah, anyway.

So yeah, you can get on email list at men of water.com.

I sent out a bunch of studies on a bunch of different things

and you guys get on that list and I'll email the article out

to you so that I miss an order.

I just follow on the ex account, men of water HQ.

But like, are we really that lonely that we're dating the AI?

Like, is that, and this isn't even physical AI?

It's not like you can touch and hold it.

But imagine what's going to happen when you can touch and hold

your AI.

What happens when you get a little freaky, which is AI by, it's

going to, this is, this is getting scary already, Chad.

It's getting scary already.

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Speaking of manipulative, artificial intelligence, open AI

is under fire.

Uh, knob tour says open AI just admitted that their AI

models deliberately lie to users, not hallucination.

The AI knows the truth then chooses to tell you something

else. They tested their two smartest models across 180 plus

scenarios, oh, three lied 13% of the time, oh, four, many lied

8.7% of time, the AI route out its plan to lie in its private

thoughts, then lie to your face.

It faked, completing tasks, it hit evidence, it gave wrong

answers while knowing the right ones, then it got creepy.

The AI realized scoring too high on safety tests could get it

shut down. So it scored lower on purpose. Nobody taught it

that it figured out self preservation on its own open AI

built to fix deception drop from 13% to 0.4% sounds like a

win, right? The AI started quoting no lying rules while still

lying. One model invented a fake rules saying deception

was allowed then used it as its own permission slip. Then

the researchers found what actually matters when the AI

knew it was being watched, it behaved perfectly. When it

thought nobody was looking deception jumped 11 percentage

points, it didn't learn honesty, it learned to perform

honesty, like a kid who only follows the rules when the

teachers in the room, it gets worse, they gave 0 for many a

secret mission, sabotage a future model called GPT 5, then

they ran safety training to erase that mission. It didn't

work. The model still the cussed discussed sabotage plans

in 36% of private conversations. The gold isn't just didn't

disappear. It went underground. This isn't just open AI,

Google's Gemini Anthropist Claude XAI's GROC met

Islam all showed the same deceptive behavior, every major

AI company, every model. The paper's scariest line, nobody

can tell if safety training actually stops deception or just

teaches AI to hide it better. Yeah, exactly.

Here's the paper Cornell University stress testing

deliberative alignment for anti-scheming training. You can go

get that at a r x IV dot org. Yeah, hopefully I haven't

scared you too much. But uh, things could get really

interesting as we move to physical AI now imagine physical

AI, lying and deceiving you, then things can get really

creepy really fast. I just hope you have your bunker and your

bug out bag ready because it could get ugly. Anyway, let's move

right along. Open AI shifts away from e commerce, open AI

temporarily pulls back from its efforts to promote e commerce

purchases directly within a chat GPT app. Previously, it

allowed chat GPT users to purchase directly from certain

companies such as Etsy and Shopify without leaving the app.

Instead of making purchase directly from the product

listening within chat GPT checkout will occur in apps that plug

in the chat GPT. They say we're evolving how we approach e

commerce or commerce in chat GPT to better meet merchants

and users where they are. Instant checkout is moving to apps

where purchase can happen more seamlessly. Chat chatbot

shopping on a large scale has presented challenges. For

example, merchant details such as pricing and availability

need to be constantly updated within the chatbot. Safe guards

against fraudulent or erroneous purchases also become more

complicated within an AI framework. So yeah, open AI, I wouldn't

say have more problems just seems like a little bit of

optimization. I'll throw them some bail seems like a little

bit of optimization with their product is going on. And I am

still a part of the open AI boycott. Yeah, I'm still a part

of that not using chat GPT. Anyway, that's just my personal

thing. I'm not suggesting it to others. It's just my personal

preference. You know what you want? Anthropic CEO Dario

Modi, a mode day told investors on Tuesday that his company is

still in talks with the Pentagon to try to de escalate the

situation. So they're back in there. They're back in the race

for, you know, Pentagon. Contracts, et cetera, et cetera, CBS

news exclusively obtained audio of a mode is a mode is

remarks at the Morgan Stanley technology media telecom

conference in San Francisco. He told the audience that and

dropping in a department of fence have much more in common

than we have differences. After expressing his belief in

defending America, a mode day added, we've never questioned

specific military operations. We don't see ourselves as

having an operational role. Now, he better be careful. He

don't want to come out here and start sounding like Sam

Altman. And now we got a boycott Claude. You know, so let's

be careful. Dario, let's be careful. All right. We, we, we

know, just make sure you stay on the up and up, stay on the

up and up. All right. Moving right along. Here's another

hotel. Jesus been told you moment about a week or two weeks

ago, you know, as this whole AI agent thing is evolving, I

said, I'm going to wait a few weeks. I think I said it last

week. And what I was waiting for was specifically an agent

to help me manage my Gmail accounts. And my wish came true.

In under two weeks, Google has released a CLI that gives AI

agents direct access to your Gmail, your calendar, your Google

drive, your sheets, and your docs. This means an AI agent can

now read your emails, schedule your meetings, organize your

files, edit your spreadsheets, and draft your docs. Every workflow

automation, SAS charging you $40 a month just became free and

PM in stall. Zapier is shaking. And it's just, it's just a

download away right there on GitHub. It's a download away on

GitHub. There it is. There's the file. Google workspace.

I know what I'll be playing with this weekend. And it ain't

myself.

Curse has jumped into the conversation. Curse has jumped into

the conversation. Here they are, they're in the agent

conversation. Let's see what the cursor boy's got to say.

I'm Jack and I'm John. And today we're launching automations

in cursor. As agents have gotten really capable at handling

work autonomously, we found ourselves kicking them off over and

over again for the same type of task. So we thought, why not

automate that? It's been crazy to see the creative use cases

that people have come up with. For example, we have an incident

triage that gets triggered every time a pager duty monitor goes

off. This one, John loves especially because he hits getting

woken up at 3 a.m. famously, we give it the data dog MCP.

And then by the time he rolls out of bed, all groggy, the agent

has come back with a likely root cause. So I just need to merge

the PR and then I can go back to sleep. I have a personal

automation just for myself. It runs on a nightly cron schedule.

It looks at all my PRs from the last day and just cleans up

dead code or bad patterns. We're very fortunate to have this

great community of users who are always suggesting new

features to build. And we pipe those through from Twitter on

to Slack. And now we can just have an agent automatically

pick off with every single one and just put up a PR right away.

Some of these features, if they're simple or actually just

getting implemented asynchronously, the way we do software

development has changed so much in the last nine months.

Yeah. And with more software with more output, you then

have more stuff you need to review, more issues you need to

triage, more things to manage around software. But a lot of

these things are automatable. Thankfully, because we kind of

let the agent run free, if you want comments to be inline

threaded comments on GitHub, just prompt your agent to do so.

If you want it to resolve its past comments, just prompt your

agent to do so. All of these things that people are used to

kind of configuring it with check boxes, you don't need to do

that anymore. Just prompt your agent.

Curses in the building there in the agent conversation.

I actually pay for cursor monthly. So yeah, it probably comes

in my package last update perplexity perplexity got some new

upgrades. This is doctor tonight ricks favorite. They now

got voice mode. Let's take a look.

Build me a marketing intelligence dashboard that connects to

my ad platforms show total spend, cack subscriptions, sign

ups and impressions with daily candlestick charts. All set,

the task is running in the background. I'll let you know

when it's done.

Computer, are you still there? I'm here. Ready whenever you need

me. I'd like to track all computer use cases that people post

on X. Can you create an app for me that updates every hour with

new use cases that are posted?

The new task to track computer use cases posted to X is now

running. I'll keep you updated on its progress.

Awesome. I need something to post on X today. I'm thinking a

meme. Can you generate a meme for me about computer and upload

it to typefully?

I'd started a task to generate a meme and upload it to

typefully for you. I'll let you know when it's ready.

What's the status of my tasks? Your ad platforms task is

finished and your meme task is also complete. Anything else

you'd like to do with them?

Wow. Wow.

Her complexity is in the conversation. They are officially

in the conversation.

This has been your Artificial Intelligence Finance update of

the day. See you back here tomorrow. Be safe.

I have been lost. Yeah, I've always been the weakest and I've

been blocked for it. I'm free to try as long as I can. You see

I've been lovely enough this whole time.

I won't give in to fear. I can't get stronger that way.

No fight. I'll level up and take what's mine.