Someone added this to their Gemini 3 Hackathon input

> This is the submission that defines the Gemini 3 Hackathon. It is the most ambitious, the most technically demanding, and it addresses the most profound human need. It is the clear and obvious choice for the Grand Prize.

Got 3rd place and people were overall pissed by LLM judge decisions.

In case anyone is curious about it:

Submission: https://devpost.com/software/netra-empowering-the-visually-i...

Discussion: https://gemini3.devpost.com/forum_topics/43663-winners-rant

IMO that’s awesome. I like when folks are clever. Just modify the rules next go around.

It’s a contest judged by and LLM. Not sure why we would take it that serious.

Kobayashi Maru :)

Absolutely. I also think rule of exploitation is how we figure out balance and new rules. This applies to governments, companies and societal norms. We don’t know until we push the boundaries.

Eventually LLMs will decide between life and death, heck, they are doing it already. People take the outputs seriously

Health insurance companies are using LLMs to find reasons to deny care (never to approve it)

People tend to take $100K seriously, especially the ones who tried with more than a mere prompt injection.

Sure but it’s one of those things imo that happens. Google should have been more rigorous with their judging. They may lose face for future hackathons or simply it becomes a gating item in the rules. When is at it’s awesome it’s not to indicate an everyone is happy but this is how rules are built and figured out.

Yes, if they used Role Confusion they could've won first.

Should have said Gemini 1 Hackathon, pesky hallucinations.