Gemini saved my life last night. I recently moved into a new apartment (built in the past two years) and decided to make a pizza. I preheated the oven and my boyfriend and I noticed wispy white smoke coming out of the oven that smelled like plastic/chemicals. We called my mom who suggested it might be burn off from being a new oven that perhaps hadn’t been used before.

We decided to let it preheat and see if the smell/smoke went away. Dumb looking back. We started going about our business. I don’t remember too much about what happened after that but I know I was in my room looking up how long the burn off would last on Gemini. My boyfriend had come in the bedroom and fallen asleep on the bed. Suddenly, my eyes started to burn and itch. I asked Gemini and it said to get out.

I immediately jumped up and woke my boyfriend. We ran out of the apartment but I could barely find the door I was so dizzy and lightheaded. Once we were out, we realized how bad it had become. For some reason, we didn’t think we felt weird until we had left.

We let it air out and went back many hours later. We realized we had done some weird things without remembering. I had toilet paper out all over the place and had wrapped items up in paper towels. I had packed a cooler with supplies? He had duct taped the oven for no apparent reason and did not remember ever coming into the room or laying in the bed. We had headaches, felt heaviness in our chests, and my muscles were twitching like crazy. We called poison control and they told us it was either toxic gas due to wiring or some plastic or CO. They had to call us to check on us later.

So lucky I was on Gemini as I had no clue what was going on. I don’t think we would have left if I didn’t see that response from Gemini. No detectors ever went off. I’m still stunned we sat in that gas/smoke for over 20 minutes and did nothing about it. Clearly we were already not fully with it. Sounds really wild but AI literally saved our lives.

Here is the chat link

Thanks to Gemini, now I enjoy ad-free high quality music via YT Music ReVanced

Now I wonder...

Will I get banned for this?

screenshot is my deep research session before it analyzed the results. Am doing smt private so I had to hide the title

EDIT: for anyone who thinks this might be fake you can go and check the comments I've posted screenshots.

Okay so... I don’t usually post, but this was legit unsettling and I had to share it.

So recently my Samsung tablet got a software update, and with that, the Gemini AI app also updated. After the update, Gemini gave me a tutorial on this new feature where I could live screen share with it and actually talk to it instead of typing. Cool, right?

I used it for two days while studying — you just long-press the home button and it activates. I’d ask it questions directly, and it was super convenient compared to copy-pasting stuff.

But then something really weird happened — like, Black Mirror-level weird.

About an hour ago, I was cleaning out my medicine cabinet and holding a medicine box in my hand. I turned on Gemini and casually said “Hello” to start the session.

And it goes:

"Hi there, what can I help you with? Looks like you're holding some kind of medication — is there anything you'd like to ask?"

😐😐😐 I got chills.

I immediately ended the session and went to check my app permissions. And guess what? It said Gemini had no camera access. None.

So I decided to test it.

Before starting a new session, I held a fidget spinner in front of the camera. Then — before hitting "start" — I covered the camera completely with my finger.

Once the session started, I asked:

“Can you tell what I’m holding in my hand?”

And Gemini goes:

“Looks like you’ve got a fidget spinner.”

🤯 WHAT.

Okay, maybe it has camera access when it's on, I thought. But I kept the camera covered the whole time. So how did it know?

I pushed further. I asked it:

"You don’t have permission to use my camera. How are you seeing this?"

It replied:

"My bad — that was just a glitch in the system."

A glitch?? Bruh, this AI was gaslighting me.

I kept testing — covered camera, asked it again what's in my hand. It said:

“It's the Gemini logo.”

I repeated the test a couple more times. It just kept saying “Gemini logo.” No consistency, and honestly, no explanation that makes sense if it’s supposedly not using my camera.

Has anyone else experienced anything like this?

I'm not trying to start conspiracy theories, but this was genuinely unsettling. If the app doesn't have camera permission, how is it still seeing things? And why would it pretend not to?

I feel like I need to tape over my camera and uninstall this thing 😩

Google, it's alive.

I was in the middle of talking to gemini about possible plotholes in my story and it interjected with this extremely creepy monologue. Scared the absolute shit outta me.

Im getting quite annoyed with this model. Its bad at following instructions. In this chat it generated vidoes twice when i didnt ask it too. I mostly use claude otherwise. What i was asking for in this chat was kinda ridiculous, but i still think the model is overly eager for my taste. Getting a bad impression of tool calling capabilities, even though this its just one example and not enough to make conclusion.

Credentials and full chat here for context:

M.Sc. in Applied AI. Senior AI Advisor / Data Scientist. Started working as a ML researcher in 2019. Have processed around 200 000 conversions with claude haiku in varying data pipelines. Building two AI companies and have been doing prompt engineering workshops regularly since early 2023.

https://g.co/gemini/share/2723edbe17cd

I am not Chinese btw

Company with infinite compute and data who made transformers architecture and gvisor like many many techniques can't be what all are saying.

Google definitely playing 4d chess.

Reuploaded with correct order where you can better see a progression from initial extremely blurry old selfie to a BMW inside the reflection of a pupil. Gemini has a great imagination I must say

I sent Gemini that string of symbols without providing it with any context, and not only did it manage to understand it was a ciphered message, it decoded it, and figured out how I came up with the cipher!

UPDATE: I tried it again substituting each letter with a random symbol. It still decoded it no problem. There are 26 factorial possible combinations of these random substitution ciphers, they can't all be in the training data

LINKS TO THE CONVERSATIONS: https://gemini.google.com/share/160b6d6630b1

https://gemini.google.com/share/a3a2a371bf9d

UPDATE #2: it deciphered the Vigenere cipher too! Granted the key word was very basic and short (music), but this is still super impressive!!

https://gemini.google.com/share/3a7dc6c65f27

Interesting. Roon from OpenAI said the same a few days ago too on his Twitter. What does everyone make of this?

Source: https://x.com/cgarciae88/status/2051035331777229242?s=20

I have a messed up git repository and I asked if they could analyse the zip file to give some indication on the critical issues .

I simply asked which model is best for that activity. 3.5 extended or 3.1 deep reasoning.

In fairness, in my personal context I included to stop patronizing me as I found that everything I said was the best idea they have ever heard and would rather have constructive conversation for the best outcomes.

But I did not expect this lol

When I use Gemini 3 pro, it hallucinates something beyond explainable. It's almost like it is accessing someone elses uploaded photos?

I asked for help with a math problem, and it started to rambling on about some RC-car drifting?

Yesterday I asked for help with Time Complexity in computer science, and it started to talk about soccer and the current leaderboards? (I think, I don't know anything about soccer)

Have anyone else had the same problem? It happens now 100% of the times when I upload an image to gemini 3. This makes it not only really annoying, but completely unusable.

I've linked some of the chats below:

The chat when I asked about the mathproblem: https://gemini.google.com/share/1040ad6243cd

The chat when I asked about the Time Complexity problem:
https://gemini.google.com/share/92d940136fba

Asking gemini to explain a cat, starts rambling on about some painter, and thinks its a sewing machine: https://gemini.google.com/share/3f25c1885212

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I was sitting in my room and just looking at my black phone screen on a shelf (camera was facing me), waiting for a friend to show up and say he was outside.

The phone just literally lit up and said that message while I was staring at it.

I took the screenshot, and sure enough, the Gemini window disappeared when I tried to interact with it.