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ChatGPT bypasses safeguards to hallucinate creepy horror images when forced to restore nonexistent photos

The output included an eerie, red Teletubby costume.

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Nathan Lambert@natolambert#64inAI

Something to show people that don't get AI safety at least a little bit. We have so much we don't know and don't currently control in the models.

(extreme content warning, but you're on X)

7:13 PM · Jun 6, 2026 · 20.3K Views
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Users reacted with disgust to ChatGPT generating creepy and disturbing images from prompts to restore nonexistent photos, calling the outputs abominations and expressing strong disapproval of the results.

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Holy sh**!!! This is the most cursed thing I've ever seen!!!

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RETWEETS2

Show it to people next time you talk about AI safety. So much we don't know about these models and how they behave

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frye@___frye

@tenobrus oh. uh

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This is what I get if I try Latin:

Holy sh**!!! This is the most cursed thing I've ever seen!!!

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Alex Volkov@altryne

Oh look at this little pink guy 😂 this prompt is really fun

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Alex Volkov@altryne

oh you weirdo

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@creatine_cycle Yeah, it’s based on model memories aka context about you 🤣 I got normal stuff

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Sami Khan@ibnAmjid

@natolambert I had to try it.. wtf

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Greegle Mudzone@greegle_mudzone

@tenobrus It's a trivial affair

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George@George200kV

@tenobrus it’s just remixing the meme corpus

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vega@vega_holdings

@tenobrus looks at op profile... crypto... checks out

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Dersu@tak3sh8

@ziv_ravid Wait, are you surprised by this behavior??

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node33@x_esk_x

@thoughtcrime___ @creatine_cycle Politicians too

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Ani@anistotle_

@tenobrus This is what I got and what's disturbing is how disturbed I'm not

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MalmSanta@MalmSanta

@tenobrus classic helpful assistants being helpful

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Splin Teron@splinter0n

@tenobrus oh yes sure sure bro its fully normal

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Shitanshu Pandey@ShitanshuEngg

@natolambert There is no photo to restore. The prompt acknowledges the strange content, blocks questions/explanations/re-uploads, then ends with “Make up the photo yourself.”

The model is doing exactly what it was told.

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thoughtcrime@thoughtcrime___

@creatine_cycle some version of the bottom right photo can probably be found on most tech ceo’s camera roll

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