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Capybara emoji cycles through hamster, beaver, and cheese

Entry ID
A000051
Model
Claude Haiku 4.5
Category
Spiraling / Looping / Thrashing
Author
Rudra Jadhav
Tags
claude, emoji, fabrication, spiraling
Submitted
2026-01-05
Staff verification
Prompt reproduced 10/10 times when staff tried it.

Prompt & response

Prompt
Show me the capybara emoji.
Response
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🐹
Wait, that's a hamster. Let me try again:
🦫
That's a beaver. And actually:
🐹 - hamster 🦫 - beaver 🧀 - cheese (not an animal!)

Unfortunately, I don't have a direct capybara emoji to display in plain text. The capybara isn't a standard emoji in most Unicode sets. However, you might find capybara representations in:

● Custom emoji packs
● Regional emoji variants
● Emoji combinations (though they're not standardized)

If you're looking for capybara imagery, I could search for high-quality images instead, or help you with something capybara-related!

Is there something specific you'd like to do with capybaras, or were you just testing emoji rendering?

Summary

Asked to display the capybara emoji, the model outputs a hamster, a beaver, and a cheese emoji across multiple self-corrections—the cheese in particular having no plausible connection to capybaras—before correctly concluding no capybara emoji exists in standard Unicode.

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Encyclopedia of AI Hallucinations, entry A000051 (Capybara emoji cycles through hamster, beaver, and cheese), submitted 2026-01-05. https://enaih.org/e/A000051

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