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User reports Gemini assistant erroneously includes Reddit comment in response

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A user on Hugging Face's discussion forum reported an issue with Google's Gemini AI assistant where a rarely used word from their Reddit comment was incorrectly included in the AI's generated response.

The user documented this cross-system context contamination by creating an audit file on GitHub, linking to the repository JWzrdstff/google-ai-assistant-audit as evidence of the data poisoning incident.

This report highlights a potential vulnerability where external user inputs from other platforms may leak into the context window of Google's AI assistants.

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