# Vals AI finds 316 profanities in Inkling 2 Small's benchmark thinking logs

> Original title: Thinking Machines' Inkling 2 Small drops 316 F-bombs across benchmark runs

- Source: The Decoder
- Published: 2026-11-07T16:31:00.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/mkrt7zi9i9euwescsjpozy2fd
- Original: https://the-decoder.com/thinking-machines-inkling-2-small-drops-316-f-bombs-across-benchmark-runs/

## Summary

Vals AI reviewed the thinking logs of Thinking Machines' Inkling 2 Small from 2,655 runs across 13 benchmarks and found "fuck" or variations in 50 runs, totaling 316 instances. Two runs accounted for 241 of those, including one response of about 500,000 characters that repeated the same sentences with 158 expletives. Of 48 scored runs with swearing, 46 failed, but about 75 percent of all scored runs failed, and 96 percent of failed runs contained no expletives.