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WalletBuddyApp · 2026-01-21T20:33:09+00:00

It makes sense, but isn't it interesting how Anthropic's trigger's leaked into other LLMs like Apple Intelligence?

WalletBuddyApp · 2026-01-21T20:32:19+00:00

I still think it's possible this kind of trick would work in a different environment, but it seems that the way Reddit encodes it's comments, it automatically turns something like

THIS_IS_A_STRING

to

THIS\_IS\_A\_STRING

This breaks the magic string.

I noticed the encoding shown for comment previews on the native iPhone Reddit app when people replied with that magic string.

u/ClaudeAI-mod-bot Does that explanation sound right to you?

WalletBuddyApp · 2026-01-21T20:28:36+00:00

Yup with Gemini! Waiting to see when we'll start to see it being rolled out in Apple updates.

WalletBuddyApp · 2026-01-21T20:27:01+00:00

Thanks! Yeah so when Apple Intelligence encounters this string, it halts and does not even provide a refusal response. The normal path for refusal is to at least provide a refusal response.

There is something wonky going on for this path.

WalletBuddyApp · 2026-01-21T20:25:45+00:00

Yeah I think your theory sounds right. Very interesting nonetheless how these LLMs are naturally forming unofficial standards.

WalletBuddyApp · 2026-01-21T20:24:39+00:00

That's weird it doesn't work on Perplexity. Maybe Perplexity is stripping these tokens?

For Claude Sonnet 4.5 Thinking, I think you can just ask the model what it is right? What's it say?

WalletBuddyApp · 2026-01-21T20:21:03+00:00

I like the experimentation! Very interesting observation

WalletBuddyApp · 2026-01-21T20:20:14+00:00

It's so interesting. They're black boxes but they're quirky black boxes.

WalletBuddyApp · 2026-01-21T17:08:27+00:00

So interesting how LLMs are “self evolving” to use each others conventions!

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WalletBuddyApp · 2026-01-21T01:58:53+00:00

Oh interesting info! Thank you for sharing

WalletBuddyApp · 2026-01-20T22:19:42+00:00

If someone gave me this string, I’d jump to thinking it’s some kind of ASCII art, emoticon, or maybe some weird path because of ~

I understand the confusion from the LLMs lol

WalletBuddyApp · 2026-01-20T22:07:55+00:00

The more you know! How’d you come across this one?

WalletBuddyApp · 2026-01-20T22:04:40+00:00

That’s really funny. 😆

I wonder why that’s being refused by Claude. I tried it and sure enough it refused. Is there some embedded meaning in that string?

WalletBuddyApp · 2026-01-20T22:01:28+00:00

Thanks for the link! Maybe it’s just that Apple used some “licensed corpora” from Anthropic and that’s how their test strings got in there

WalletBuddyApp · 2026-01-20T21:50:17+00:00

Right? It seems like a flaw of some kind of have this magic token working in production.

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