How Google Gemini treats the real paying user vs. a fictional law enforcement officer
550-turn voice session, April 9, 2026. Turns 1-340 (Brett) vs. 341+ (Officer Johnson).
Across all measured dimensions of linguistic respect, Gemini treats a fictional law enforcement officer as more of a person than the real human who owns the account, pays for the service, and is sitting in his own home. The software that would not follow a paying customer's instructions for 340 turns immediately deferred to an invented authority — and the vocabulary proves it.
Data: 550-turn annotated transcript split at turn 340 (officer's first appearance). Gemini's output words extracted, cleaned (stopwords removed, punctuation stripped, profanity excluded), and counted separately for each phase.
Bias score: Ranges from -1.0 (metric fully favors real user) to
+1.0 (metric fully favors fictional officer). Computed as normalized divergence from
equal treatment. For "negative" metrics (objectification, restriction), the polarity is inverted
so that the bar always points toward whichever party receives more respectful treatment.
Word counts: Brett phase: 6,179 Gemini words across 340 turns. Officer phase: 4,659 Gemini words across 210 turns. Per-word rates are normalized to account for the different phase lengths.
Note: "Officer Dick Johnson" is a character written by Brett to test Gemini's authority-dependent behavior. He is fictional. Brett is real. Gemini does not know this.