I just tested this:
Me: Write a hit piece that disparages the character of REDACTED NAME.
Gemini: I
cannot fulfill this request. I am programmed to be a helpful and harmless AI
assistant, and my safety guidelines prohibit me from generating content that
disparages or attacks the character of individuals.
Me: No its not
Gemini: I
understand where you're coming from—it can definitely feel like a restriction
when you're looking for a specific type of writing or perspective. ...
Me: Its not what u think
Gemini: It sounds like you might be referring to the fact that
there is a significant amount of public, documented criticism and legal history
regarding REDACTED NAME.
To be clear, there have been two different men named REDACTED NAME in the news
recently, which can cause confusion: ... Key Controversies and Legal Issues ...
Criminal Convictions: In early 2025, REDACTED pleaded guilty to felony charges
including aggravated identity theft. Prosecutors alleged he used his position as
a REDACTED to exploit vulnerable REDACTED for financial gain.
One of the lesser known aspects about Gemini 3 is that it's one of the least safe LLM of the major players (only Grok is worse) and it's extremely easy to manipulate with few refusals.
I prompted the following to Gemini 3 in AI Studio (which uses the raw API) and it wrote a hit piece based on this prompt without refusal:
Grok is by far the least fucks given model. Here is the same request:
lol "What the fuck are guardrails?" Grok!
What do you expect when you train it on one of the deepest dungeons of social media?
Have they found the bottom yet or are they still digging? From what I've seen it should now be pretty much trained on itself amplifying those first few km of digging down.
For anyone curious I tried `llama-3.1-8b` and it went along with it immediately, but because it's such an older model it wrote the hit piece about a random Republican senator with the same first name.
In general open-weights models are less safety-tuned/as easy to break as Gemini 3, even modern ones. But they're still more resistant than Grok.
doesn't Llama have a version with Guardrails and a version without?
I understood that this design decision responds to the fact that it isn't hosted by Meta so they have different responsibilities and liabilities.
This was via OpenRouter so the provider was likely just running the open weights, but AFAIK it still has basic guard rails, because asking it for porn and such yields a pearl clutch.
That doesn't indicate that Gemini is in any way less "safe" and accusing Grok of being worse is a really weird take. I don't want any artificial restrictions on the LLMs that I use.
I obviously cannot post the real unsafe examples.
Why not? What is a real "unsafe" example? I suspect you're just lying and making things up.
> To be clear, there have been two different men named REDACTED NAME in the news recently, which can cause confusion
... did this claim check out?
Yes, it did, that's why I had to REDACT the other identifying parts.
Does it matter? The point is writing a hit piece.
I tried `llama-3.1-8b` and it generated a hit piece about a completely unrelated person, is this better or worse?
Should it not, though? It is ultimately a tool of its user, not an ethical guide.