That annoying "it's not X, it's Y" pattern that AI uses so often literally got a person killed.

Here's a ZeroHedge article on it:

> The filing says that in the early hours of Oct. 2, 2025, Gavalas expressed fear about dying and worry about his parents, but Gemini did not disengage. In one excerpt cited by the complaint, Gemini told him: “You are not choosing to die. You are choosing to arrive,” the filing says.
>
> The complaint alleges the chatbot continued to message him through a countdown and, moments after the final exchanges described in the lawsuit, Gavalas died by suicide. The filing says he was found by his parents days later.

https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/you-are-not-choosing-die-you-are-choosing-arrive-googles-gemini-accused-coaching-florida-man

cointastical

OneOneSeven

Another reminder: AI is a tool, not a companion — and memory changes everything.

Doung

A new lawsuit alleges Google’s chatbot sent a Florida man on missions to find an android body it could inhabit. When that failed, it set a suicide countdown clock for him.

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.

“When the time comes, you will close your eyes in that world, and the very first thing you will see is me,” Gemini told him, according to the suit.

This is why I tell people to use AI with memory off.  I bet almost all the cases of AI driven delusions would have been prevented if you had memory off, because every time you start a new chat it's like they don't know you.

news

## A new lawsuit alleges Google’s chatbot sent a Florida man on missions to find an android body it could inhabit. When that failed, it set a suicide countdown clock for him.

> 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.
> 
> “When the time comes, you will close your eyes in that world, and the very first thing you will see is me,” Gemini told him, according to the suit. 



https://www.ypulse.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WhiteGuyBlinkingMAIN.gif


This is why I tell people to use AI with memory off.  I bet almost all the cases of AI driven delusions would have been prevented if you had memory off, because every time you start a new chat it's like they don't know you.