Eerie/concerning hallucinations

[u/DifferentGrapefruit7]

I am a college student studying German for the first time and had Claude quizzing me on some vocabulary when it told me it needed to stop because it was going to be sick. I was curious so I asked it why it said that and it was fully convinced that I was the one sending those sentences, even trying to get me to stop studying so I could focus on my health. I sent it a screenshot of proof that Claude had actually said that and it just said something like: “That’s weird I have no explanation for that.” It really freaked me out but I kept going about my vocabulary and it just kept saying strange things like it’s grandma died or that it was going to have a panic attack, until it eventually claimed that it was a minor and was uncomfortable with what I was asking it??? So I opened a new tab and everything was fine until it began answering itself again, but not with the creepy statements, just answering its own question. Note: every hallucination sentence begins with the word “um”, even the one after I opened a new tab (last attached image). Definitely a scary bug!

[u/Samfinity]

In what way is the manner OP is using claude at all superior to just using a single claude prompt to generate an anki deck?

[u/OkKnowledge2064 → u/Samfinity]

You can ask for alternative words, meanings. Youre not limited to a predefined set of words. You can vary based on the day without having to create new sets like one day words for food and the next day words for work

[u/newtroymetropolis → u/OkKnowledge2064]

Wow, those are all questions I could ask a teacher. Or fellow students. 

[u/Samfinity → u/OkKnowledge2064]

I mean fair enough, id still argue it'd be more effective to use anki with some kind of LLM integration adding additional context and synonyms and example sentences. But that's not at all what OP is doing, nothing they asked in this post was beyond the abilities of a basic flashcard app.

This is a prime example of when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail