Google's Gemini almost got me cancelled

Oh well, I won't be able to trust AI summaries anymore after this... How do I even start this story? Lemme break this post into two parts; the story and the verdict.

Story

Well, lemme introduce a character first. A Discord friend whom we shall call Dana for this story. I will tell you more about her later on. Coming back to the story so, I don't recall how but I came across the word "Mamacita" and wanted to know what it means. So, I did what every person normal would have done and googled the meaning and fair enough, Google gives me an answer or rather, Gemini gave me the answer back. My experience with Gemini has been good before so I trusted its summary without scrolling any further to check the sources or what the different websites/dictionaries say. And, this is what Gemini told me

"Mamacita" is a Spanish term that translates to "little mother" or "little lady". It's often used as a term of endearment, affection, or flattery.

And two of the points it told me were:

• It's often used to call someone younger than you in a casual or informal setting.
• It's often used to show respect, admiration, or affection for someone.

Now, if you know what mamacita means, then you can probably guess what happens in the story but if you are like me and don't know what it means, then mamacita is just an endearing term guys call their female partners. Basically, mommy/daddy is mami/papi but in Spanish. The only thing you need to know is that you aren't supposed to call any random person that. It is obvious once you know the meaning, like you don't go calling every stranger you meet mommy/daddy unless you are a weirdo or a shameless content creator.

Anyways, I, being totally unaware of that, interpreted the meaning in a completely different way. The way I interpreted it was that it is used to refer younger girls as "little mother" appreciating the fact that they will become mothers in the future when they grow up. And I know that it kinda sounds weird and I might be doing a terrible job explaining my reasoning but knowing how many cultures we have in this world, and how different all of them are from each other, I thought it was a cultural thing or I can totally see a culture doing this. Welp, that's enough coping.

Coming back to the story so, I kinda talk to Dana almost everyday and I started to call her mamacita :p
She would just laugh it off and won't react in any way. Everything was over text so I wouldn't know even if she did but anyways, yeahhh, that continued for what I recall was 2-3 weeks. One day, I decided to check its meaning again because something felt off and instead of relying on the LLM summary, I decided to open a dictionary and yep, I see the actual meaning of that term and when to use it and to whom and blah blah and stuff and went to apologize to Dana. She burst into laughing and said, "YOU DIDN'T KNOW THAT? HAHAHAHA". Well, I guess she figured that I am just being a goofball like I am and didn't mean anything bad or vulgar so she brushed it off BUT had it been someone else whom didn't know me well enough, could have easily gotten me cancelled or uh, yk, bad things could have happened if the person was not Dana :p

Verdict

Welp anyways, all that happened after getting tricked by Gemini who would tell me to be cautious with baking soda but wouldn't tell me that calling someone mamacita could appear like flirting or vulgar (based on the person you use it on).

Anyways, thanks to Dana Blue for being a good friend and not getting me cancelled LoL. And as for AI and LLMs, I cannot trust their answers now. BTW, I have no intention of shaming Google's Gemini here. As I said earlier, my experience with Gemini pretty good. What I don't like about LLMs as a whole is they are so easy to deceive as well as, they could be extremely deceiving to the users. If you are a tech person, you know know the concerns of prompt hacking. Either way, even though I won't be "trusting" LLMs anymore, I will still be using them for certain things and will always double check from the source to make sure everything is correct. I kinda cannot stop using perplexity.ai (not affiliated with them) especially because I often want to search something but cannot figure out what to write in the search bar. Perplexity being a search engine helps me a ton with that and it mentions the sources which is why I cannot stop using it. I am not interested in the answer summary however it gives me the links of the pages where I can find the answers even when I was barely able to tell it the thing I was actually looking for.