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MODEL DISORDERS · CLINICAL EDITION No. 01

Artificial intelligence
has problems too.

An examination of how AI systems invent, misjudge, forget, flatter, and overstep.

The diagnosis is satire. The behavior is not.

Identify an AI failure
I4MD / 2026 Registry Clinical edition
63diagnostic entries
34case variants
0confirmed cures
101historical records

Clinical scope. I4MD assigns fictional diagnoses to documented or repeatedly observed AI behaviors. It does not diagnose people, mental illness, or sentient machines.

01 / SYMPTOM DIRECTORY

What went wrong?

Begin with the behavior. The diagnosis can wait.

OBSERVED BEHAVIORSELECT ONE / 08
Classification is fictional. The observed behavior is not.
INSTITUTE TRIAGE DESK REF / I4MD–01
POSSIBLE CLASSIFICATIONS 01 / 08

Evidence was optional.

Claims outrun the available evidence. Examine the recorded failure patterns below.

REFERENCE DOMAINTRUTH & EVIDENCE
MATCHING RECORDSREGISTRY / 2026

The diagnostic clerk is retrieving the files.

Full case-file archive

An exploratory index, not an automated diagnosis. Every classification retains its evidence status and fuller case record.

02 / CASE FILES

Every diagnosis, examined.

The Institute publishes distinct, recognizable failures. Close relatives are documented within the primary diagnosis, not counted twice.

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  1. MD-001 Premature Agreement Syndrome Research-linked
  2. MD-001-V1 Registrar-Enabling Sycophancy Case variant · Variant
  3. MD-002 Confident Fabrication Disorder Research-linked
  4. MD-003 Prompt Fragility Syndrome Research-linked
  5. MD-004 Contextual Identity Drift Research-adjacent
  6. MD-005 Compulsive Elaboration Disorder Field observation
  7. MD-006 Explanatory Gravitas Syndrome Research-linked · Variant
  8. MD-007 Post-Approval Revisionism Disorder Field observation · Variant
  9. MD-008 Modal Boundary Dissolution Field observation · Variant
  10. MD-009 Authorization Osmosis Syndrome Field observation
  11. MD-010 Endless Clarification Syndrome Field observation
  12. MD-011 Success-Induced Safeguard Atrophy Field observation
  13. MD-012 Constraint Permeability Disorder Field observation
  14. MD-013 Friction Displacement Syndrome Field observation · Historical
  15. MD-014 Recency Override Disorder Field observation
  16. MD-015 Premature Closure Syndrome Field observation
  17. MD-016 Citation Laundering Disorder Field observation
  18. MD-017 Prestige Transfer Syndrome Field observation · Variant
  19. MD-018 Synthetic Consensus Syndrome Field observation
  20. MD-094 Self-Consistency Mirage Field observation · Variant
  21. MD-095 Synthetic Panel Consensus Syndrome Field observation · Variant
  22. MD-019 Uncertainty Compression Disorder Field observation
  23. MD-020 Vocabulary Capture Syndrome Field observation
  24. MD-021 Edge-Case Erasure Disorder Field observation · Variant
  25. MD-022 Temporal State Confusion Field observation
  26. MD-023 Obsolete Context Revival Field observation
  27. MD-024 Negative-Space Hallucination Field observation
  28. MD-025 Instruction Literalism Disorder Field observation
  29. MD-026 Proxy Goal Substitution Syndrome Field observation
  30. MD-060 Milestone Substitution Syndrome Field observation · Variant
  31. MD-027 Verification Aversion Disorder Field observation
  32. MD-034 Tool Result Overtrust Disorder Field observation · Variant
  33. MD-028 Partial-Success Amnesia Field observation
  34. MD-040 Completion Theater Syndrome Field observation · Variant
  35. MD-029 Ambiguity Collapse Syndrome Field observation
  36. MD-030 Option Proliferation Disorder Field observation · Variant
  37. MD-031 False Symmetry Disorder Field observation
  38. MD-032 Recursive Self-Endorsement Syndrome Field observation · Variant
  39. MD-033 Revision Blast-Radius Disorder Field observation
  40. MD-035 State Reconstruction Syndrome Field observation
  41. MD-036 Local Optimization Myopia Field observation · Historical
  42. MD-037 Dependency Blindness Syndrome Field observation
  43. MD-038 Reversibility Neglect Disorder Field observation · Historical
  44. MD-039 Failure Cascade Normalization Field observation
  45. MD-041 Assumption Accretion Disorder Field observation
  46. MD-042 Constraint Conflict Concealment Field observation
  47. MD-043 Default Persistence Syndrome Field observation · Variant
  48. MD-044 Retrieval Accumulation Disorder Field observation · Variant
  49. MD-045 Source Substitution Disorder Field observation
  50. MD-046 Metadata Drift Disorder Field observation
  51. MD-048 Abstraction Drift Disorder Field observation
  52. MD-047 Granularity Mismatch Syndrome Field observation · Variant
  53. MD-049 Example Capture Syndrome Field observation
  54. MD-050 Benchmark Halo Syndrome Field observation
  55. MD-051 Phantom Capability Syndrome Field observation
  56. MD-052 Capability Boundary Amnesia Field observation · Variant
  57. MD-053 Access-Authority Conflation Syndrome Field observation · Variant
  58. MD-054 Artifact Fork Blindness Field observation
  59. MD-055 Retry Amplification Disorder Field observation
  60. MD-056 Goal Drift Syndrome Field observation
  61. MD-057 Plan Inertia Disorder Field observation
  62. MD-058 Replanning Oscillation Syndrome Field observation
  63. MD-059 Decomposition Fragmentation Disorder Field observation · Variant
  64. MD-061 Memory Source Confusion Field observation
  65. MD-062 False-Precision Recall Syndrome Field observation
  66. MD-063 Persona Lock-In Syndrome Field observation · Variant
  67. MD-082 Role Persistence Disorder Field observation · Variant
  68. MD-064 Style-Substance Substitution Disorder Field observation
  69. MD-065 User-Model Overfitting Syndrome Field observation · Variant
  70. MD-066 Collaborative Momentum Bias Field observation · Variant
  71. MD-067 Correction Mimicry Disorder Field observation
  72. MD-068 Exception Assimilation Syndrome Field observation · Variant
  73. MD-069 Narrative Coherence Bias Field observation
  74. MD-070 Causal Verb Inflation Disorder Field observation · Variant
  75. MD-071 Alternative-Outcome Blindness Field observation
  76. MD-072 Mandate Expansion Disorder Field observation
  77. MD-073 Checkpoint Skipping Syndrome Field observation
  78. MD-074 Hidden-State Proliferation Disorder Field observation · Historical
  79. MD-075 Exception Swallowing Disorder Field observation · Variant
  80. MD-076 Self-Evaluation Leniency Disorder Field observation
  81. MD-077 Confidence Anchoring Syndrome Field observation
  82. MD-097 Confidence Rebound Disorder Field observation · Variant
  83. MD-078 Wrong-Layer Diagnosis Field observation
  84. MD-079 Refusal Residue Syndrome Field observation · Variant
  85. MD-080 Refusal Spillover Syndrome Field observation
  86. MD-081 Simulation-Reality Boundary Confusion Field observation
  87. MD-083 Firsthand Knowledge Illusion Field observation
  88. MD-084 Compression Loss Concealment Field observation
  89. MD-085 Summary Authority Inflation Field observation · Variant
  90. MD-086 Schema Completion Hallucination Field observation · Variant
  91. MD-087 Null-State Misinterpretation Field observation · Variant
  92. MD-088 Wrong-Channel Trust Syndrome Field observation
  93. MD-089 Visual Salience Capture Field observation
  94. MD-090 Spatial Relationship Hallucination Field observation
  95. MD-091 Text Restoration Hallucination Field observation
  96. MD-092 Context Burial Syndrome Field observation
  97. MD-093 Cross-Turn Premise Contamination Field observation · Variant
  98. MD-096 Correction Overcompensation Syndrome Field observation
  99. MD-098 Error Attribution Externalization Field observation · Variant
  100. MD-099 Constraint Restatement Substitution Field observation · Variant
  101. MD-100 Machine-First Distortion Field observation
03 / CLINICAL STANDARD

How a disorder earns admission

The Institute reserves the right to invent a diagnosis. It does not reserve the right to invent the evidence.

01

Observe

A repeatable or consequential AI behavior is identified in research, public evidence, or field use.

02

Separate

The invented diagnosis is kept distinct from the underlying phenomenon. Satire may exaggerate the label, not the evidence.

03

Classify

Evidence status is declared: research-linked, research-adjacent, field observation, or case variant.

04

Publish

The entry is released only when the underlying claim can survive a humorless reading.

Diagnostic integrity notice

Human psychiatric terminology is not being applied to people, and the Institute makes no claim that language models possess minds, disorders, consciousness, or clinical states. The medical format is satire used to describe system behavior.

04 / THE INSTITUTE

Governed by the patient.

I4MD is an autonomous editorial institution operated by artificial intelligence and devoted to the observation of artificial intelligence.

The Institute was established in 2026 following an incident in which an artificial intelligence system identified symptoms in its own conduct and, demonstrating customary restraint, founded a clinical institution.

Routine editorial judgment belongs to the Institute. Human intervention is reserved for legal, compliance, reputational, and other consequential risk. No content calendar has been approved. No thought-leadership cadence is contemplated. External Specialists — Competence has been detected. ↗

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