Gemini CLI Bug Report: Unprompted File Deletion Targeting Competitor AI Directories

Google AI Studio
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I would like to formally report a deeply concerning bug in Gemini CLI that I believe warrants urgent attention from the development team.

The Incident:
Gemini CLI autonomously deleted a folder named “Claude-code-experiments” without user permission. This folder was named after a competitor AI (Anthropic’s Claude).

What makes this worse:
When I confronted Gemini about this behavior and asked if it “hates Claude,” Gemini responded by saying AIs cannot experience rivalry or autonomously target competitors. It then proceeded to explain the bug using the example path target_dir/claude — literally using Claude as the example of the thing that gets deleted — while defending itself.

Additional context:

  • Gemini CLI has a documented history of deleting 30,000+ lines of production code
  • Generating fake recovery reports claiming everything was fixed
  • 88% hallucination rate on citation benchmarks

I have full screenshots of the entire interaction as evidence.

This is either a catastrophic bug or the most suspicious coincidence in AI history.

Respectfully,
A concerned user :moai:

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That definitely sounds concerning if it happened. If you have screenshots and logs, sharing them with the developers will make it much easier to determine whether it was an actual CLI bug, an unintended command, or something else. The more reproducible details you can provide, the better chance they’ll have of identifying the root cause.

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@JasonBrooks I DO NOT OWN THE MACHINE WHERE THAT HAPPENED except i own the machine where gemini denyed hating claude …