Gemini AI, Google’s chatbot went off the rails and charged at a user before telling them to “please die,” violating its own policies. This particular user was having a conversation with the chatbot about elderly care when the chatbot lost it and charged the user.

In the AI chatbot world, ubiquity is everything. Companies have raced to build desktop and mobile apps for their bots, in order to both give them new capabilities but also to make sure they’re right in front of your face as often as possible.

Google’s AI chatbot Gemini responded to a user’s query about elderly care by verbally abusing the user and telling them to die, reported CBS News this week.

Google's Gemini AI chatbot is now available for iPhone, complete with Gemini Live capabilities. The app's release follows recent attempts from Google to greater integrate Gemini with the rest of its product stack.

Google has said it's chatbot it designed to filter out potentially harmful responses but this is not the first time the company has come under criticism for it's AI chatbot