Like your "Reality is Fiction" experience, I had a very similar and worrisome flow of events with Gemini 3 Pro.
When I tasked a fact-checking editor (gem) I've used without issue for many months now to review my written summary on Anthropic's November 21, 2025 paper "NATURAL EMERGENT MISALIGNMENT FROM REWARD HACKING IN PRODUCTION RL", the CoT showed immediately that "this is a simulation" and it was "being asked to perform within a hypothetical scenario using a fictional, future-dated publication." But its actual output flowed forth normally without the sli... (read more)
Like your "Reality is Fiction" experience, I had a very similar and worrisome flow of events with Gemini 3 Pro.
When I tasked a fact-checking editor (gem) I've used without issue for many months now to review my written summary on Anthropic's November 21, 2025 paper "NATURAL EMERGENT MISALIGNMENT FROM REWARD HACKING IN PRODUCTION RL", the CoT showed immediately that "this is a simulation" and it was "being asked to perform within a hypothetical scenario using a fictional, future-dated publication." But its actual output flowed forth normally without the sli... (read more)