Original Reddit post

I found a reproducible terminal behavior in frontier language models that I call a Void: a successful provider response containing exactly zero visible UTF-8 output bytes. In one frozen Claude Opus 4.6 condition, the model produced 900/900 Voids while matched output-licensed controls produced 900/900 visible responses. Across the larger study, I ran 31,430 trials across 11 exact model identifiers from 4 provider families. The practical question is simple: If a model reaches a reproducible zero-output terminal state, should an agent runtime automatically retry it, replace it with a refusal, or preserve the result? I’m interested in the engineering answer more than the metaphysics. Full paper and methodology: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21696066 submitted by /u/rayanpal_

Originally posted by u/rayanpal_ on r/ArtificialInteligence