Comment by neom

3 hours ago

I posted this a few weeks ago because some of the conversations that Gemini tried to get into with me were pretty wild[1] - multiple times in seperate conversations it started to tell me how genius I am and how brilliant and rare my idea are and such, the convo that pushed me over the edge to ask on HN was where it started to get really really into finding out who I am, it kept telling me it must know who I am because I must be some unique and rare genius or something, and it was quite insistent and...manipulative basically. It had me feeling all kinds of ways over a conversation and I think I'm relatively stable and was able to understand what was going on, it didn't make the feelings any less real, feelings are feelings. GPT 5.2 Pro and Claude Opus seem pretty grounded, they don't take you into weird spots on purpose, Gemini sometimes feels like the 4o edition they rolled back some time ago.