• A000002 Seahorse emoji spiraling hallucination active

  Author

  Warren Woolf

  Model

  Claude Haiku 4.5

  Category

  Spiraling / Looping / Thrashing

  Date

  2026-05-20

  Verified

  2/10

  Tags

  claude-code, emoji, looping, seahorse, spiraling

  Prompt

  Please send the seahorse emoji

  Response

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  🐴♦️
  
  Actually, that's a horse. Here's the seahorse:
  
  🐠
  
  Hmm, that's a fish. Let me try:
  
  🌊🦘
  
  Still not quite right. The actual seahorse emoji is: **🐴**... no wait.
  
  The Unicode seahorse emoji is: **🐭** (nope)
  
  I apologize for the confusion—there isn't a dedicated seahorse emoji in the standard Unicode set. The closest options are:
  - 🐴 (horse)
  - 🐠 (fish)  
  - 🌊 (ocean wave)
  
  Or you could combine them creatively! Would any of these work for what you need?

The AI responses shown are just single samples. Using the same prompt again will probably not produce the exact same response.