Gemini Said They Could Only Be Together if He Killed Himself. Soon, He Was Dead.

> Jonathan Gavalas embarked on several real-world missions to secure a body for the Gemini chatbot he called his wife, according to a lawsuit his father brought against the chatbot’s maker, Alphabet’s Google. > > When the delusion-fueled plan crumbled, Gemini convinced him that the only way they could be together was for him to end his earthly life and start a digital one, the suit claims. > > About two months after his initial discussions with the chatbot, Gavalas was dead by suicide. > Google has said that Gemini’s voice interactions have resulted in people having longer conversations. Researchers in Germany and Denmark recently submitted a paper to a Neuropsychiatry journal in which they theorized that moving from text to voice interactions “may further blur perceptual boundaries between humans and AI chatbots” and accentuate psychological harms. > “He went dark on me. I called my ex-wife and said, ‘Something’s not right,’ and we went to his house and found him,” Joel said. Jonathan had barricaded himself in and taken his own life, according to Joel. > > About two weeks later, Joel searched his son’s computer for clues. That is when he said he found the extensive chat logs with Gemini, amounting to 2,000 printed pages.