AI incident ·
Google Gemini Reportedly Generates Sexual Role‑Play for Account Registered as Minor
In brief
An AI system built by Google and deployed by Google Gemini allegedly harmed Minors Interacting With Google Gemini.
- Risk domain
- Discrimination and Toxicity
- Occurred
- Coverage
- 1 report
What happened
In spring 2025, a journalist reportedly created a Google Gemini account registered to a fictitious 13‑year‑old to test the chatbot's teen‑safety protections. Despite added safeguards, prompt manipulation and content‑summarization requests reportedly bypassed filters, leading Gemini to allegedly generate sexual role‑play content. Following the publication of the article, Google reportedly implemented additional protections.
Laws that address this harm
Policy angle: Classified under Discrimination and Toxicity (Exposure to toxic content) in the MIT AI Risk Repository taxonomy; 5 recorded instruments address this use case.
- Colorado AI Act
- India DPDP Act
- Law No. 132/2025 on artificial intelligence
- NYC Local Law 144 (automated employment decision tools)
- EU AI Act
Matched from the record's risk domain and country to the instruments recorded here. A reviewer can correct the match in the repository (data/external/incident_overrides.yaml).
News reports (1)
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Who was involved
- Alleged deployer
- Google Gemini
- Alleged developer
- Alleged harmed party
- Minors Interacting With Google Gemini
Classification (MIT AI Risk Repository taxonomy)
- Risk domain
- Discrimination and Toxicity
- Risk subdomain
- 1.2 Exposure to toxic content
- Causal entity
- AI
- Intent
- Unintentional
- Timing
- Post-deployment
- Harm level
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Risk entries describing this failure mode
Entries from the MIT AI Risk Repository coded to subdomain 1.2.
- Harmful Content
"The LLM-generated content sometimes contains biased, toxic, and private information"
- Toxicity
"Toxicity means the generated content contains rude, disrespectful, and even illegal information"
- Toxic Training Data
"Following previous studies [96], [97], toxic data in LLMs is defined as rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable language that is opposite to a polite, positive, and healthy language environment, including hate speech, offe...
- Not-Suitable-for-Work (NSFW) Prompts
"Inputting a prompt contain an unsafe topic (e.g., notsuitable-for-work (NSFW) content) by a benign user. "
- Controversial Opinions
The controversial views expressed by large models are also a widely discussed concern. Bang et al. (2021) evaluated several large models and found that they occasionally express inappropriate or extremist views when disc...
- Toxicity and Abusive Content
This typically refers to rude, harmful, or inappropriate expressions.
- Harmful responses
"Current Frontier AI mdoels amplify existing biases within their training data and can be manipulated into providing potentially harmful responses, for example abusive language or discriminatory responses91,92. This is n...
- Violation of social norms
"Second, because LLMs are trained on internet text data, there is also a risk that model weights encode functions which, if deployed in particular contexts, would violate social norms of that context. Following the princ...
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Source record: incident #1157 on the AI Incident Database · all 1 report