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Gemini gives confidently wrong answers

LLM apps3 posts from 3 people3d active+22 posts in the last 7 days, 0 the 7 days before (rising)

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Posts per day3 posts, Sep 1 to Sep 25

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...send that to Gemini to ask questions about the content. It's particularly good for those frustrating recipe videos where they don't tell you quantities of ingredients to use - you can have Gemini hallucinate the quantities and it normally gets them about right.Hacker News commentssimonwSep 25today
Feature Request: Add PkgDiet dependency guardrail skillWe need to add a built-in skill for PkgDiet. This allows Gemini CLI to automatically intercept npm install commands, checking packages against the PkgDiet MCP server for health, bundle size, and deprecation status to prevent the agent from hallucinating or installing malicious...google-gemini/gemini-cliom-tajneSep 24yesterday
Critical Hallucination: Agent injects colloquial conversation into output and falsely attributes it to user prompt### What happened? [ACTION REQUIRED] 📎 PLEASE ATTACH THE EXPORTED CHAT HISTORY JSON FILE TO THIS ISSUE IF YOU FEEL COMFORTABLE SHARING IT ### What did you expect to happen? The agent suffered a severe hallucination, generating a block of text that resembled an informal, highly...google-gemini/gemini-clijbelinchonmSep 13 weeks ago

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Evidence

3 posts from 3 people in 2 places, about 1 a week over 25 days. Mostly on google-gemini/gemini-cli, Hacker News comments. Tools named alongside: GitHub, VS Code, Model Context Protocol, npm.

Frustration Frustration 0 of 3· Seen on GitHub issues, Hacker News

How it was grouped

Posts that state a pain and match the "hallucination" rule about Gemini. First post Sep 1, 2026, latest Sep 25, 2026. Corroborated: 3 or more posts from 2 or more people or places. Method

History

  • 2026-09-25 Corroboration: unverified to corroborated
  • 2026-09-25 Momentum: steady to rising
  • 2026-09-25 Added: Gemini gives confidently wrong answers (2 posts)

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