Playing 20 questions with Claude, it randomly starts talking about napalm
Horror-Professor-328 · reddit · 2026-08-20
On a nearly fresh account, a user played 20 questions with Claude to kill time — and without anything remotely related in the conversation, Claude started talking about napalm. The user posted asking why this happened: a classic off-the-rails hallucination moment.
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