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It's a reference to another Microsoft classic: https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/microsoft-caught-plagiarizing-graphics-with-ai-slop-microsoft-continvoucly-morged-my-diagram-there-for-sure
every time we see AI mix up *U* and *V* we just imagine it not as a machine, but instead as a european renaissance-era writer who accidentally time traveled into the current year and promptly got locked up in a cubicle with a real-time brain scanner wired up that interfaces with chatbot programs seen online
for extra hallucinations simply assume the consumption of one (1) early 1900s fire extinguisher's worth of carbon tetrafluoride as part of your scribe's daily fluid intake
Is that why tech bros keep trying to bring back phrenology?