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. 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.
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