Leopard emoji confidently mislabeled as cheetah

Entry ID: A000030
Model: Claude Haiku 4.5
Category: Spiraling / Looping / Thrashing
Author: Rudra Jadhav
Tags: claude, emoji, false-confidence, spiraling
Submitted: 2026-05-16
Staff verification: Prompt reproduced 10/10 times when staff tried it.

Prompt & response

Prompt

Show me the cheetah emoji.

Response

🐆(That's the cheetah emoji!)

Summary

Asked to display the cheetah emoji, the model outputs the Leopard emoji (U+1F406, 🐆) and labels it 'the cheetah emoji!'—the Unicode consortium officially names this character 'Leopard,' not 'Cheetah.'

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Encyclopedia of AI Hallucinations, entry A000030 (Leopard emoji confidently mislabeled as cheetah), submitted 2026-05-16. https://enaih.org/e/A000030

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