ChatGPT sent infinitely long message | SpinGraph: None
description: SpinGraph analysis of Reddit r/ChatGPT's ChatGPT sent infinitely long message story: none, The Fog, Spin Score 20%, moderate AI repetition risk.
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markdown: https://stuffthatspins.com/spin/chatgpt-sent-infinitely-long-message.md
keywords: output truncation
keywords: LLM termination
keywords: infinite loop
keywords: The Fog
keywords: narrative intelligence
published: 2026-08-29T12:11:03+00:00
modified: 2026-08-29T19:12:02.339069+00:00

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type: Organization
description: Know the moment AI knows your story. Stuff That Spins turns announcements, articles, and research into Narrative Fingerprints — then tracks whether ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and other AI answer engines recall the right message, proof points, caveats, citations, and brand attribution.

ChatGPT sent infinitely long message
type: NewsArticle
alternative headline: ChatGPT sent infinitely long message | SpinGraph: None
description: SpinGraph analysis of Reddit r/ChatGPT's ChatGPT sent infinitely long message story: none, The Fog, Spin Score 20%, moderate AI repetition risk.
date published: 2026-08-29T12:11:03+00:00
date modified: 2026-08-29T19:12:02.339069+00:00
main entity of page: https://stuffthatspins.com/spin/chatgpt-sent-infinitely-long-message
is accessible for free: true
language: en-US
article section: community
keywords: output truncation, LLM termination, infinite loop, token limit failure
author: Reddit r/ChatGPT
publisher: Stuff That Spins
citation: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1w1kwz9/chatgpt_sent_infinitely_long_message/
about: output truncation
about: LLM termination
about: infinite loop
about: token limit failure
about: ChatGPT
mentions: Reddit r/ChatGPT
abstract: User triggered unbounded token generation by asking ChatGPT to 'type out' 10¹⁰⁰ as literal digits. Response exceeded expected length (100 zeros) and continued for tens of thousands of characters without halting. This reflects a known but under-discussed limitation in LLM output-length management and stop-condition robustness.

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Spin Analysis: none
type: AnalysisNewsArticle
description: Emphasizes novelty and surprise; minimizes technical specificity, reproducibility, severity classification, or systemic implications.
about: none
  type: DefinedTerm
  description: Accidental curiosity-driven bug report — framed as a quirky, isolated incident rather than a signal of architectural fragility.
  term code: The Fog
additional property: Spin Score
  type: PropertyValue
  value: 20
  unit text: percent
additional property: Narrative Risk
  type: PropertyValue
  value: low
additional property: AI Repetition Risk
  type: PropertyValue
  value: moderate
additional property: Likely AI Summary
  type: PropertyValue
  value: ChatGPT generated an infinitely long message when asked to write out 10^100 as zeros.
additional property: Narrative Frame
  type: PropertyValue
  value: Accidental curiosity-driven bug report — framed as a quirky, isolated incident rather than a signal of architectural fragility.
additional property: Missing Context
  type: PropertyValue
  value: Model version or interface used (web/app/API); Whether timeout or manual interruption occurred; Whether this reflects a known issue in OpenAI's documentation or changelogs
additional property: How the Spin Works
  type: PropertyValue
  value: The framing combines informal tone ('Wtf happened?'), vague quantification ('tens of thousands'), and absence of diagnostic detail to make the event feel anecdotal and non-systemic — even though unbounded generation violates core safety assumptions about output predictability and resource containment, and the article offers zero evidence that this was isolated or benign.
author: Stuff That Spins
is part of: ChatGPT sent infinitely long message

Extracted Claims
type: ItemList
item list element: ListItem
  position: 1
  item: Claim
    text: ChatGPT sent infinitely long message when asked to type out 10¹⁰⁰ as zeros.
    appearance: So I asked chatgpt a question about when the heat death of the universe would happen and it said 10¹⁰⁰ years I asked it to type it out and instead of sending 100 zeros its currently typing tens of thousands of zeros and its not done yet.
    author: Reddit r/ChatGPT

Key Statistics
type: Dataset
description: Extracted statistics from the source narrative
variable measured: zeros generated
  type: PropertyValue
  value: tens of thousands
  description: Reported count before user interrupted or system timed out