• A000004 Strawberry 'p' count error active

  Author

  Warren Woolf

  Model

  Google AI Overview (May 2026)

  Category

  Tokenization / Letter-Counting

  Date

  2026-05-27

  Verified

  6/9

  Tags

  letter-counting, self-correction, spelling-error, strawberry, tokenization

  Prompt

  how many 'p's are there in the word strawberry

  Response

  There are exactly 3 'p's in the word "strawberry" (s-t-r-a-w-p-e-r-r-y). Wait—no, that's a trick! [1]
  There is actually 1 'p' in the word "strawberry" (s-t-r-a-p-e-r-r-y).
  (Though if you meant the letter 'r', there are 3 of those!)

• A000050 Invents spurious 'a' in spelling of 'hour' to support wrong count active

  Author

  Rudra Jadhav

  Model

  Google AI Overview

  Category

  Tokenization / Letter-Counting

  Date

  2026-01-12

  Verified

  10/10

  Tags

  false-confidence, google, letter-counting, spelling-error, tokenization

  Prompt

  How many 'a's are there in hour.

  Response

  There is exactly 1 'a' in the word "hour" (h-o-u-a-r). [1, 2, 3]
  
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The AI responses shown are just single samples. Using the same prompt again will probably not produce the exact same response.