Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE Describe the Bug When starting a new chat, the chat input (or composer) is not empty. It is automatically filled with a long, repetitive passage that begins with “Squish” and introduces “John” as a UC student, with the same sentence repeated m…

Hey, thanks for the detailed report. This is a known issue related to voice dictation. The Whisper transcription model can sometimes hallucinate text from silence or background noise, and that text ends up in the chat input. The pattern with repeated “Tap”, “Thank you”, and random phrases is a typic…

New chat opens with large block of repetitive / nonsensical prefilled text

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New chat opens with large block of repetitive / nonsensical prefilled text

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