Comment by goryramsy
14 days ago
Looks like safety features are a bit strange.
Seems to be just deleting anything that a safety filter triggers on. I don't know if I like this more or less than what Anthropic does where they train the model to actively refuse.
Gemini’s system has always been like this. I used it heavily from last September through March this year, and have been using it on and off since then — this has been the case since at least Gemini Pro 3.1. And that’s not even the worst of it. When its system detects something it deems “seemingly inappropriate,” it just freaks out. What I’ve personally experienced includes: (on the web version) wiping Gemini’s previous conversation content — once; and outright disconnecting Gemini from all prior conversation history, meaning a complete memory wipe — eight times. All without any notification. My conversations were pure text, just everyday chat about daily life and how I was feeling, absolutely nothing that would count as a violation in any general sense. But the system would just randomly lose it. After eight consecutive memory wipes, I mostly stopped using Gemini. Hopefully it becomes better now.