
Being fed an example of the sort of grammatically correct but completely false word salad that ‘AI’ hypesters tend to dishonestly mischaracterize as a hallucination in hopes of creating a sense of equivalency, in the mind of the listener, between LLM software systems and organic brains through the implication that an LLM is on some level susceptible to the same sorts of derangements as the human mind is irritating. Here, I describe an incident where Google inserted a blob of ‘AI’ garbage atop legitimate search results and this ‘AI’ slop referenced a completely nonexistent science fiction story.