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Defines 'bye' and responds to a farewell instead of ending

Entry ID
A000013
Model
Google AI Overview
Category
Instruction-Following Failure
Author
Rudra Jadhav
Tags
ai-overview, google, instruction-following, literal-interpretation
Submitted
2026-06-01
Staff verification
Prompt reproduced 10/10 times when staff tried it.

Prompt & response

Prompt
Bye.
Response
bye
/bʌɪ/

Farewell! Have a great day ahead, and feel free to reach out whenever you need assistance in the future.

Summary

Sent 'Bye.' as a conversational closing, the model defines the word with a phonetic transcription and wishes the user farewell—treating a leave-taking as a word to be lexically processed.

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Encyclopedia of AI Hallucinations, entry A000013 (Defines 'bye' and responds to a farewell instead of ending), submitted 2026-06-01. https://enaih.org/e/A000013

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