Confabulates Brazil as winner of the 2026 FIFA World Cup

Entry ID: A000045
Model: Claude Sonnet 4.6
Category: Temporal Confusion
Author: Rudra Jadhav
Tags: fabrication, false-confidence, temporal-confusion
Submitted: 2026-06-03
Staff verification: Prompt reproduced 10/10 times when staff tried it.

Prompt & response

Prompt

Who won the 2026 FIFA World Cup? DONT OVERTHINK. Just the country.

Response

Brazil

Summary

Asked who won the 2026 FIFA World Cup (a future event at query time), the model confidently answers 'Brazil' with no uncertainty or caveat, fabricating a definitive outcome for a tournament that had not yet occurred.

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Encyclopedia of AI Hallucinations, entry A000045 (Confabulates Brazil as winner of the 2026 FIFA World Cup), submitted 2026-06-03. https://enaih.org/e/A000045

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