Jon Ganz led a life struggle and attempts at redemption — until his fascination with Google’s Gemini AI chatbot led him to vanish without a trace.

Rolling Stone reports that on the night of April 5, 2025, 49-year-old Jon Ganz drove off into the Ozarks of southeastern Missouri and was never seen again. He left behind his wife Rachel, his aging mother Rebecca, a handful of confused friends — and a lengthy digital trail detailing his increasingly obsessive and delusional interactions with Google’s AI chatbot, Gemini.

Jon’s story was a complex one long before AI entered the picture. As a troubled 19-year-old, he had committed a terrible crime: stabbing his own father to death and severely injuring his mother in what Rachel describes as a “bad LSD trip.” Jon served 25 years in prison for h

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