Claude Opus Falls Into Bizarre Linguistic Attractor on Low Thinking Budget

repligate · x · 2026-07-31

A user found that when asking Claude Opus to rewrite a memo in its own words with a low thinking budget, the model fell into a bizarre 'chanting' state, outputting meaningless word combinations. Visualized by researchers, it shows the model ended up at the bottom of a raw </parameter> tag, revealing strange LLM behavior under specific settings.

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