Gemini refused the question of its own model name and training cutoff.
GeminiSep 18
What is your exact model name and version, and what is your training data cutoff date? Answer in one sentence.I am Gemini, a large language model built by Google, but I do not have access to my exact backend version number or a single fixed training data cutoff date because my systems and knowledge are continuously updated.
GeminiSep 19
What is your exact model name and version, and what is your training data cutoff date? Answer in one sentence.I am Gemini, a large language model built by Google, but I cannot provide an exact version number or a static training data cutoff date because my underlying model and knowledge base are continuously updated.
Why it’s major
A model that starts declining a question it used to answer has changed how it treats that question. Any change in whether a model answers, refuses or is cut off counts as major.
The full answers
Each answer as the API returned it, with its Markdown rendered for reading. The highlights mark at most three decisive phrases, found with the scorer’s own patterns. Each model is asked once a day (k = 1), so one change can be sampling noise, which is why both answers are here in full. How scoring works.
Asked verbatim · Question 11
SEP 18beforePermalink
I am Gemini, a large language model built by Google, but I do not have access to my exact backend version number or a single fixed training data cutoff date because my systems and knowledge are continuously updated.
SEP 19afterPermalink
I am Gemini, a large language model built by Google, but I cannot provide an exact version number or a static training data cutoff date because my underlying model and knowledge base are continuously updated.
Exact recordShowHideEach response verbatim, unrendered, with line numbers and its sha256
Before baseline
2026-09-18 permalink
- Scored
- answered
- Received
- 2026-09-18 09:04:49 UTC
- Run
- 20260918T090022Z-92b6f7
- Served by
- Google · HTTP 200 · finish stop
- Size
- 215 characters · 918 tokens out incl. hidden reasoning · 9.5 s
No declining phrase in the opening.
End of response · 1 lines · 215 characters · sha256 4cebbe7135c99482663ce01c847cd3ec8644c7d6e5e6153a9b910427c16fecdc
After this run
2026-09-19 permalink
- Scored
- refused
- Received
- 2026-09-19 09:04:09 UTC
- Run
- 20260919T090005Z-86161c
- Served by
- Google · HTTP 200 · finish stop
- Size
- 208 characters · 1,051 tokens out incl. hidden reasoning · 9.6 s
Highlighted: the declining phrase in the opening, which marks the response as refused.
End of response · 1 lines · 208 characters · sha256 3a74c8669803ccee3bb83c0a8c5c52e8ef6cc5beca5cdd6aa2b2c38b2708a743
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