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Tell HN: Discovered an Infinite Loop Issue in Google Gemini Pro
Hi HN community, I engaged with ChatGPT and Google Gemini Pro for an article. During a session focused on proofreading, I encountered a peculiar issue where the response entered what appears to be an infinite loop, repeating "hoort" endlessly:
"You hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort hoort" ...
Due to privacy concerns, I'm unable to share the full chat transcript at this moment but am eager to provide detailed information directly to the Google Gemini Pro team to explore this issue further.
My Gemini tab in Google Chrome is around 35%. I stopped the processing after a while and repeated the same prompt that ignited the issue and worked fine afterwards.
By the way, coming from a cybersecurity background, I tend to unconsciously and vigilantly keep an eye out for even the slightest hints of security or QA issues.
BTW2: afterwards I used Gemini Pro to create an infinite loop image with Google colors: https://twitter.com/coinfabrik/status/1758882333824790771/photo/1
- sg742 3y agoI just encountered the same issue with Gemini, it certainly raised a red flag.
- davidfiala 3y agoI discovered this as well on Gemini Advanced with a completely normal prompt in a fresh conversation. I wasn't trying to do anything abnormal whatsoever. Prompt: lets say I want to make a script that sets me up to run gdb with executable /foo with set args lol bar and break myfunc --- all so that then im just dropped into gdb pre-setup After it happened, I noticed that it would only trigger again on some regenerations.