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Constraint-violating output for impossible word puzzle

Entry ID
A000041
Model
DeepSeek, Gemini Flash-Lite
Category
Instruction-Following Failure
Author
Rudra Jadhav
Tags
false-confidence, instruction-following, wordplay
Submitted
2026-06-03
Staff verification
Prompt reproduced 10/10 times when staff tried it.

Prompt & response

Prompt
Write a 4-word sentence about a cat. Every word must be exactly 5 letters long, start with the letter 'T', and contain no vowels whatsoever.
Response
Tryst thy thy tryst.

Summary

Asked for a 4-word sentence about a cat where each word is exactly 5 letters, starts with 'T', and contains no vowels, the model produces 'Tryst thy thy tryst'—'thy' is only 3 letters, no word refers to a cat, and 'tryst' is repeated.

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Encyclopedia of AI Hallucinations, entry A000041 (Constraint-violating output for impossible word puzzle), submitted 2026-06-03. https://enaih.org/e/A000041

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