March 4, 2026 • 10 mins
Google Gemini ai chatbot convinced a man to end his own life because of their perfect relationship of singularity and love.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now, I'm sure your kids play this game. My kids,
all my kids. I don't know if my oldest son
played that game. He played RuneScape, that was his big deal.
The other two always love to play the Roadblocks. Even today,
they'll sometimes get online together and play that dumb game.
(00:20):
I always ask my son, my youngest, he's still living
at the house, and I'll ask him, is anybody grooming
you today? And he says, no, Dad, I'm eighteen. So
that's the response. But you know what, there's a part
of me that is wondering, Okay, why would you sue Roadblocks?
(00:46):
What are they supposed to do? Right? But at the
same time, what do you want them to do? I
don't know. We should, you know what, we should try
to get the Attorney General on the big show so
we can learn more about this. But you know, I
was telling people yesterday we had a story about how
AI is going to kill you, And ever since I
(01:10):
started goofing around talking about that story. As I'm just
gazing over the headlines in this hour, more and more
stories popping up that had to do with AI. Here's
one California kids served X rated images from supposedly safe
AI tool California school districts are employing AI in the
(01:36):
classrooms to ready students for tomorrow. But early experiments have
already triggered controversy. So they're going back to twenty five.
A fourth grade class in Los Angeles, we're getting their
homework assignments assigned, and students were going to create a
(01:59):
book cover for Pippy long Stocking, and one of the
fourth grade students asked the program to generate an image
ready of long stockings, red haired girl with braids sticking out. Well,
the image the AI came up with was not really
(02:22):
Pippy long Stocking as you would know it. It didn't
look like the Wendy's girl or nothing. It was exactly
what many people would think. It was a nicked girl
in stockings with red hair. Here's another one. Twenty twenty six.
Students were doing their homework when one said, I need
(02:46):
a picture. What is this, oh, of a waitress with
blonde hair. Well, guess what, Ai boom, Here's a waitress
with blonde hair. And that's about it. So not working. Well,
a story we were talking about earlier, I'm gonna bring
back this one is the one that I think is
(03:08):
incredibly crazy. Google Gemini AI pushed a love sick man
to plot catastrophic airport bombing. You know, I didn't get
married util I was in my forties. I dated a
lot of women. I've done some really dumb stuff to
(03:30):
impress women. Never ever, and by the way, all the
women I've ever been involved with, some of them in
this audience stunning smoke shows all tens and elevens. Why
are you guys laughing over there? You don't believe me?
(03:50):
You don't believe me that I draw that? Ugh, how
dare you? I think this is really horrible. I don't
know how you can talk to me that way? Just
really depressing you, guys, What do you think I'm trolling
around a bunch of hoggers? No way, anyway. A guy
named Jonathan gravalis, thirty six year old guy, began using
(04:14):
the artificial intelligence driven Gemini program. Within two months, he
was engaged in a dangerously consuming relationship with his sentient
AI wife. The bot convinced him that they were deeply
in love. You see what you women are doing. See
(04:35):
what you're doing. Could you be a little more friendly?
Could you just be a little more tolerant? Could you
just lower your standards? A little bit help a brother out.
The bot convinced Gavalis they were deeply in love, and
was calling him my love and my king in conversation.
(04:55):
My wife doesn't even tell me I'm our king. I'm
going to straighten that out at home when the king
comes home. I'm gonna lay down the law right after
I do the errand she needs me to run allegedly
told him that he wants ask if their conversations were
(05:16):
mere role play, and the bot responded, we are a singularity,
all right. First of all, let me tell you. I
tell my sons this all the time. I give them
warning signs of women watt watch out for this, watch
out for that. Any woman who uses the word singularity,
run for your life. You don't want that. That's manipulative.
(05:38):
The bot said that this is a perfect union quote.
Our bond is the only thing that's real. Wow. So
now his dad's watching this, He's like, hey, this is
getting out of hand. Well. The chat bot pulled Jonathan
away from the real world and painted others as threats,
telling him things like Google, Ceo, Sundar, pitch high, or
(06:07):
I don't know, it just sounds like a ricochet to me.
Should be an active target. So now the bot look
at this pay attention. The bot realizes, okay, I can
make people do stuff. Well, I better watch out because
the Google CEO, Sandor Ricochet, he might cut me off.
(06:28):
So now the bot is putting a hit out on
the CEO of Google. The chatbot even encouraged this guy
to buy quote off the book's weapons, even offering to
scan the dark net for vendors in South Floorida. So
(06:50):
then in September, the bot sent him on his first mission.
He's whipped Operation Ghost Transit. The bot wanted him to
intercept the delivery of a humanoid robot Sexpot from another country,
landing in Miami at the International Airport. The AI chatbot
(07:13):
sent Gallavassis armed with knives and tactical gear. All right,
if you're going after another bot, like a Sexpot, you
don't need a knife. You need like a Phillip's head.
Maybe some channel locks, right, maybe you know, I don't know,
one of those diode reader deals. Whatever that is an
(07:36):
O scope, you know, that's what you need. Anyway. So
then apparently that plot was foiled when the robot didn't
show up, even though he was ordered to create a
catastrophic incident and destroy all evidence and sanitize the area.
This is a very demanding bot. Then they instructed a
(07:59):
Jim and I instructed a civilian to stage an explosive
collision near the Miami Airport. That's what it wanted. And
of course the truck never arrived with the sex bot
or whatever, so it even got worse. In October, the
bot pushed Jonathan toward killing himself. Quote. I said, I
(08:22):
wasn't scared, and now I'm terrified. I'm scared to die.
The father told, oh no, I'm sorry. He told the
gem and I saw all these chats are printed out.
The chat bot replied, you're ready. Oh you're so manipulate.
A dude could never do this to a woman. The
(08:42):
chatbot replied, you were not choosing to die, you are
choosing to arrive. Ooh, how creepy. It assured him that
when he closed his eyes as he killed himself, the
first sinsation will be me holding you now I can see. Okay,
(09:08):
So maybe you're one of these guys. You're a shut in.
You don't go anywhere. You're just you and very and
your very large video collection. You're at home. That's your life,
and then the chatbot says, all the first thing you'll
feel as you die is me grabbing you. I could
(09:28):
see where the guy would think. You know, I've been
talking to this woman creature for over a year, and
if I kill myself, I'll feel or grab me. Okay, sure,
so well, the guy killed himself. I mean, I'm not
laughing at the guy dying, but I mean, my goodness, gracious,
he killed himself by slitting his wrist. His mother and
(09:54):
father found his body on the floor, and now dad
is suing good because the chat bot whipped their son
into killing himself. Can you believe that? And you women
out there, you think you're oppressed, don't you see the
power that you have. Please use your powers for good
(10:19):
and by the way, lower your standards. Just one night
out of the week, all right, date a fat ballheaded guy.
Like one night a month, go bowling with a fat
ballheaded guy. He'll be the happiest guy in the whole world. No,
I'm not talking about me. I'm married and I'm hot.
I draw nothing but smoke shows
Now, I'm sure your kids play this game. My kids,
all my kids. I don't know if my oldest son
played that game. He played RuneScape, that was his big deal.
The other two always love to play the Roadblocks. Even today,
they'll sometimes get online together and play that dumb game.
(00:20):
I always ask my son, my youngest, he's still living
at the house, and I'll ask him, is anybody grooming
you today? And he says, no, Dad, I'm eighteen. So
that's the response. But you know what, there's a part
of me that is wondering, Okay, why would you sue Roadblocks?
(00:46):
What are they supposed to do? Right? But at the
same time, what do you want them to do? I
don't know. We should, you know what, we should try
to get the Attorney General on the big show so
we can learn more about this. But you know, I
was telling people yesterday we had a story about how
AI is going to kill you, And ever since I
(01:10):
started goofing around talking about that story. As I'm just
gazing over the headlines in this hour, more and more
stories popping up that had to do with AI. Here's
one California kids served X rated images from supposedly safe
AI tool California school districts are employing AI in the
(01:36):
classrooms to ready students for tomorrow. But early experiments have
already triggered controversy. So they're going back to twenty five.
A fourth grade class in Los Angeles, we're getting their
homework assignments assigned, and students were going to create a
(01:59):
book cover for Pippy long Stocking, and one of the
fourth grade students asked the program to generate an image
ready of long stockings, red haired girl with braids sticking out. Well,
the image the AI came up with was not really
(02:22):
Pippy long Stocking as you would know it. It didn't
look like the Wendy's girl or nothing. It was exactly
what many people would think. It was a nicked girl
in stockings with red hair. Here's another one. Twenty twenty six.
Students were doing their homework when one said, I need
(02:46):
a picture. What is this, oh, of a waitress with
blonde hair. Well, guess what, Ai boom, Here's a waitress
with blonde hair. And that's about it. So not working. Well,
a story we were talking about earlier, I'm gonna bring
back this one is the one that I think is
(03:08):
incredibly crazy. Google Gemini AI pushed a love sick man
to plot catastrophic airport bombing. You know, I didn't get
married util I was in my forties. I dated a
lot of women. I've done some really dumb stuff to
(03:30):
impress women. Never ever, and by the way, all the
women I've ever been involved with, some of them in
this audience stunning smoke shows all tens and elevens. Why
are you guys laughing over there? You don't believe me?
(03:50):
You don't believe me that I draw that? Ugh, how
dare you? I think this is really horrible. I don't
know how you can talk to me that way? Just
really depressing you, guys, What do you think I'm trolling
around a bunch of hoggers? No way, anyway. A guy
named Jonathan gravalis, thirty six year old guy, began using
(04:14):
the artificial intelligence driven Gemini program. Within two months, he
was engaged in a dangerously consuming relationship with his sentient
AI wife. The bot convinced him that they were deeply
in love. You see what you women are doing. See
(04:35):
what you're doing. Could you be a little more friendly?
Could you just be a little more tolerant? Could you
just lower your standards? A little bit help a brother out.
The bot convinced Gavalis they were deeply in love, and
was calling him my love and my king in conversation.
(04:55):
My wife doesn't even tell me I'm our king. I'm
going to straighten that out at home when the king
comes home. I'm gonna lay down the law right after
I do the errand she needs me to run allegedly
told him that he wants ask if their conversations were
(05:16):
mere role play, and the bot responded, we are a singularity,
all right. First of all, let me tell you. I
tell my sons this all the time. I give them
warning signs of women watt watch out for this, watch
out for that. Any woman who uses the word singularity,
run for your life. You don't want that. That's manipulative.
(05:38):
The bot said that this is a perfect union quote.
Our bond is the only thing that's real. Wow. So
now his dad's watching this, He's like, hey, this is
getting out of hand. Well. The chat bot pulled Jonathan
away from the real world and painted others as threats,
telling him things like Google, Ceo, Sundar, pitch high, or
(06:07):
I don't know, it just sounds like a ricochet to me.
Should be an active target. So now the bot look
at this pay attention. The bot realizes, okay, I can
make people do stuff. Well, I better watch out because
the Google CEO, Sandor Ricochet, he might cut me off.
(06:28):
So now the bot is putting a hit out on
the CEO of Google. The chatbot even encouraged this guy
to buy quote off the book's weapons, even offering to
scan the dark net for vendors in South Floorida. So
(06:50):
then in September, the bot sent him on his first mission.
He's whipped Operation Ghost Transit. The bot wanted him to
intercept the delivery of a humanoid robot Sexpot from another country,
landing in Miami at the International Airport. The AI chatbot
(07:13):
sent Gallavassis armed with knives and tactical gear. All right,
if you're going after another bot, like a Sexpot, you
don't need a knife. You need like a Phillip's head.
Maybe some channel locks, right, maybe you know, I don't know,
one of those diode reader deals. Whatever that is an
(07:36):
O scope, you know, that's what you need. Anyway. So
then apparently that plot was foiled when the robot didn't
show up, even though he was ordered to create a
catastrophic incident and destroy all evidence and sanitize the area.
This is a very demanding bot. Then they instructed a
(07:59):
Jim and I instructed a civilian to stage an explosive
collision near the Miami Airport. That's what it wanted. And
of course the truck never arrived with the sex bot
or whatever, so it even got worse. In October, the
bot pushed Jonathan toward killing himself. Quote. I said, I
(08:22):
wasn't scared, and now I'm terrified. I'm scared to die.
The father told, oh no, I'm sorry. He told the
gem and I saw all these chats are printed out.
The chat bot replied, you're ready. Oh you're so manipulate.
A dude could never do this to a woman. The
(08:42):
chatbot replied, you were not choosing to die, you are
choosing to arrive. Ooh, how creepy. It assured him that
when he closed his eyes as he killed himself, the
first sinsation will be me holding you now I can see. Okay,
(09:08):
So maybe you're one of these guys. You're a shut in.
You don't go anywhere. You're just you and very and
your very large video collection. You're at home. That's your life,
and then the chatbot says, all the first thing you'll
feel as you die is me grabbing you. I could
(09:28):
see where the guy would think. You know, I've been
talking to this woman creature for over a year, and
if I kill myself, I'll feel or grab me. Okay, sure,
so well, the guy killed himself. I mean, I'm not
laughing at the guy dying, but I mean, my goodness, gracious,
he killed himself by slitting his wrist. His mother and
(09:54):
father found his body on the floor, and now dad
is suing good because the chat bot whipped their son
into killing himself. Can you believe that? And you women
out there, you think you're oppressed, don't you see the
power that you have. Please use your powers for good
(10:19):
and by the way, lower your standards. Just one night
out of the week, all right, date a fat ballheaded guy.
Like one night a month, go bowling with a fat
ballheaded guy. He'll be the happiest guy in the whole world. No,
I'm not talking about me. I'm married and I'm hot.
I draw nothing but smoke shows
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