I am so angry and disappointed at all the left- and center-wing commentators who bought into the right-wing framing of "parent's rights" as being more important than children's rights.

Like, I'm sorry, but parents have *responsibilities to* kids, not *rights over* kids. Kids aren't property, they're living, breathing *people* who deserve care and love and privacy and dignity.

A friend asked Gemini to do a security assessment of a recent open source macOS app (look through code, developer behavior, user forums, etc).

It spat out a 2,500 word essay painting the whole thing as a massive backdoor, talking to C&C servers, reading your chat messages, bypassing macOS security, the works. Even including diagrams. Entirely coherent on the face of it, overdone but it *could* have been real and someone not in infosec would easily buy it.

100% hallucinated. Gemini wrote an entire infosec fanfic based on nothing. Worst thing I found on the real repo was a symlink traversal bug that was quickly fixed by the dev.

This was using the "Deep Research" function in "Pro" mode on an "Ultra" account.

Edit: It did have a fetch tool, it quoted the README. This wasn't a chat only sandbox, it did have the tools to actually fetch and analyze code and user forums.