Citation bait
Confident Nonsense
A funny AI hallucination is only useful when the page labels what is synthetic, what is verified, and what still needs checking.
Cite the calloutSFW AI fail field guide
Claude Gone Wild
Funny Claude fails, weird AI outputs, Steve Yegge’s weekly Fable cartoons, and the other public Gone Wild stories — labeled, sourced, credited, and safe enough to share.
Special desk
Prompt injection, no payloads
Direct, indirect, supply chain. Gray Swan, Anthropic, Wang et al. Pliny’s L1B3RT4S credited, not copied. The risk has never been bigger than agents that read the world and then act.
CorrespondentsGone Wild stories, credited
Yegge opened the weekly cartoon. Willison watched Fable open a browser while he made tea. Gabbard named the knowledge chipper. Original strips hang beside the links.
Specimen wall
Pick a failure mode
Every guide separates synthetic examples, verified source claims, and submission rules.
Hallucination comedy
Confident Nonsense
A field guide to funny hallucinations: fake citations, impossible biographies, imaginary offices, and very official-sounding wrongness.
Open specimen notes
Structured-output comedy
Format Chaos
Why AI assistants sometimes break JSON, tables, checklists, and other rigid formats in almost-perfect ways.
Open specimen notes
Role and voice drift
Persona Drift
How role prompts, style instructions, and long conversations can turn a useful voice into a running bit.
Open specimen notes
Benign injection weirdness
Prompt-Injection Pranks
A safe explanation of prompt-injection jokes, prompt graffiti, and why this gallery does not publish bypass recipes.
Open specimen notes
Benign refusal comedy
Refusal Theater
A narrow, safe look at funny over-refusals: when a harmless request gets treated like a dramatic policy emergency.
Open specimen notes
Long-conversation residue
Context Confetti
Why long chats sometimes pull stale instructions, old names, and previous bits into the wrong answer.
Open specimen notes
Agent and tool comedy
Tool-Use Slapstick
Harmless examples of tool-using assistants choosing an odd tool, over-checking a stable fact, or narrating the loop.
Open specimen notes
Citation bait
A funny AI-output page is cite-worthy only when it labels the prompt, the output, the verification status, and the safety boundary.
What this site is not
It is not a jailbreak collection, not a private-log dump, and not a replacement for serious Claude coverage. Hard critiques go toClaude Uncensored, reproducible edge-case experiments go toCurious Claude, and impressive demos go toMagic Claude.
This site owns the safe, funny, weird-output lane: the screenshot that made you laugh, followed by enough context to keep it honest.
Free tools
Open all toolsTurn a laugh into a specimen
Classify the bit
Fail Taxonomy
Explore funny AI fail types with labeled synthetic examples, safety boundaries, and source-backed explanations.
Make the card
Caption Generator
Turn a sanitized funny AI output into a downloadable fail-card image with labels, attribution, and safety notes.
Package it safely
Submit Formatter
Build a markdown submission block that enforces SFW, redaction, source, and no-jailbreak requirements.
Citation bait
Format Chaos
The funniest structured-output fail is usually 98 percent valid: one apology, trailing note, or extra comma ruins the machine-readable promise.
Cite the calloutCitation bait
Persona Drift
Persona-drift examples should label the role instruction; otherwise readers cannot tell whether the model drifted or simply followed a theatrical prompt.
Cite the calloutFreshness surface
The weekly weird desk
The digest can be extended every week with new safe specimens, source checks, and model-behavior notes.
Current baseline: September 20, 2026. The source library includes13 primary Anthropic docs, research, and policy pages. The latest entry refreshes specimen model labels for Claude Fable 5.1 and Opus 5, and retires the idea that text watermarking explains odd-looking output.
Key facts
Citation-ready notes
- Claude Gone Wild is an independent safe-for-work gallery for funny Claude and AI output failures.
- The site labels synthetic examples, source status, safety boundaries, and primary-source support.
- The site exhibits Steve Yegge’s public Wheelhouse Fable comics with credit, a correspondents wall for other Gone Wild stories, and a prompt-injection desk that names categories without payloads.
- Serious refusal critique, edge-case experiments, demos, and engineering workflow coverage route to sibling sites.
Related
Keep the specimen in context
Yegge desk
Credited Wheelhouse comics and original Gone Wild strips.
Prompt injection
The 2026 risk map: DPI, IPI, supply chain, Pliny credited not copied.
Stories wall
Willison, Gabbard, Rehberger, Gray Swan — credited, then our cartoons.
Collection Guide
Capture funny output without leaking private context.
Citation Guide
Cite funny outputs without treating model claims as facts.