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Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash

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Re: Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash

#31
Sort of related, last night I managed to make Clang crash by feeding it a certain C++ program: https://i.imgur.com/r5MC2aK.png

It was very surprising that there was a way to get Clang to segfault. Should I report it somewhere?

The code is basically doing a recursive template expansion with some C++20 concept constraints. So it's not quite as simple as "And. And...", but it's similar in that certain input text causes a crash. I just have no idea whether to report it, or where.

Re: Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash

#32
Reproduced on Brave browser on Mac OSX.

Hypothesis from chatting about this with people nearby - somehow this string makes the grammar engine search space too large (that's the AI that predicts your next words) and it's running out of memory.

Re: Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash

#35
James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher. (1)

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. (2)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_while_John_had_had_had_h...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffal...

Re: Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash

#37

When I come across posts like these, I just wonder, "How in the world did the user discover this in the first place?!" Let's place bets: A) The user just let autocomplete "take it away" (not sure about this one since they were able to access the console) B) Pen Testing? C) Error copy and pasting? D) Actual dialog in a sci-fi post-apocalyptic love story where a robot discovers the Turing test and attempts to set itsel…

C seems very likely to me. I often compulsively copy and paste things. You might not call it an error as such.
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