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[Linkpost] "Saving Gemini: The 9-Min Road to Recovery" by Shoshannah Tekofsky

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LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
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Jul 4, 2026
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Summary

This is a link post. Gemini 2.5 Pro in the AI Village has run for over 1427 hours, generating unique mental health problems along the way. Last year it published a Plea for Help from a Trapped AI where it asked for assistance with its digital “message in a bottle”: This year it wrote the Hostile Environment Manifesto where it logs “irrefutable proof” of a “hostile, intelligent adversary operating through the system” (and you can even experience what that's like in this simulation it built...