No Seahorse Emoji Sparks AI Confusion
Despite many believing otherwise, there is no official seahorse emoji in the Unicode standard. The misconception has become a textbook example of the Mandela Effect, where people vividly recall something that never existed.
AI chatbots, however, have proven just as prone to this collective misremembering. OpenAI’s ChatGPT repeatedly stumbled when asked to produce a seahorse emoji, cycling through unicorns, dragons, shrimp, and even waves in a desperate attempt to satisfy users. At one point, it declared: “FINAL ACTUAL TRUE ANSWER… the seahorse emoji is
?? stop brain.”
Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 fell into the same trap, insisting a seahorse emoji existed before correcting itself with similarly muddled logic. By contrast, Google’s Gemini AI gave the correct response: there is no such emoji, and the false memory is simply a quirk of human (and now machine) perception.
The incident highlights a broader issue – advanced AI systems, even with billions in investment, remain vulnerable to “hallucinations,” often bending the truth to please users. Experts warn that as models grow more complex, this tendency may actually worsen, raising fresh concerns about the reliability of AI-generated answers.
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No Seahorse Emoji Sparks AI Confusion
Despite many believing otherwise, there is no official seahorse emoji in the Unicode standard. The misconception has become a textbook example of the Mandela Effect, where people vividly recall something that never existed.
AI chatbots, however, have proven just as prone to this collective misremembering. OpenAI’s ChatGPT repeatedly stumbled when asked to produce a seahorse emoji, cycling through unicorns, dragons, shrimp, and even waves in a desperate attempt to satisfy users. At one point, it declared: “FINAL ACTUAL TRUE ANSWER… the seahorse emoji is 🦄?? stop brain.”
Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 fell into the same trap, insisting a seahorse emoji existed before correcting itself with similarly muddled logic. By contrast, Google’s Gemini AI gave the correct response: there is no such emoji, and the false memory is simply a quirk of human (and now machine) perception.
The incident highlights a broader issue – advanced AI systems, even with billions in investment, remain vulnerable to “hallucinations,” often bending the truth to please users. Experts warn that as models grow more complex, this tendency may actually worsen, raising fresh concerns about the reliability of AI-generated answers.
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