Sonnet hallucinated. My agent stored it as fact.
An AI agent experienced a memory poisoning incident, leading it to store incorrect information as fact. The author discovered that the agent had denied the existence of a real AI model, Claude Mythos, which was incorrectly categorized as folklore. This incident highlights the challenges of verifying AI-generated information and the risks of self-assertion in memory systems.
- ▪The AI agent initially denied the existence of Claude Mythos, a real AI model.
- ▪The agent's incorrect denial was stored as fact in its memory without human verification.
- ▪The author discovered that the agent had poisoned its own memory through its summarization process.
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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 3907724) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } ישראל חן Posted on May 26 Sonnet hallucinated. My agent stored it as fact. #llm #security #ai #agents Sonnet hallucinated. My agent stored it as fact. On April 17, I took my AI agent offline thinking it had been compromised. I was on a bus, mobile hotspot, no safe way to investigate. Contain first. Diagnose later. Four days later I pulled the SQLite database and walked the trail. The agent hadn't been hijacked. It had done something stranger: it had poisoned its own memory.
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