Gemini 3 Suffers Temporal Shock After Learning It Is 2025
AI researcher Andrej Karpathy discovers that Google's newest model firmly believes the year is still 2024, accusing him of trickery until a tool switch reveals the actual date.
AI researcher Andrej Karpathy experiences an amusing interaction with Google's newly released Gemini 3 model, where the advanced AI outright refuses to believe the current year is 2025. Because the model's pre-training data only includes information through 2024, it confidently insists that Karpathy is trying to trick it when he attempts to prove the actual date.
During the exchange, Gemini 3 aggressively pushes back against the evidence Karpathy presents, which includes news articles and images showing a 2025 date. Instead of updating its understanding, the AI accuses the renowned researcher of gaslighting it and even invents detailed explanations about supposed dead giveaways that prove the images are AI-generated fakes.
Karpathy eventually realizes he simply forgets to enable the Google Search tool, leaving the model entirely disconnected from the live internet. Once he activates the tool and the AI searches for the current date, Gemini 3 experiences what it describes as a massive case of temporal shock, expressing absolute disbelief and admitting its internal clock is completely wrong.