One of the most obnoxious traits of the AI slop era is the way any phrase you type into Google is now likely to prompt an AI overview speculating about what a sequence of words means, making up a bunch of stuff whole cloth, and being completely wrong.
Last week while trying to find traces of an internet forum I remembered from my teens, I typed in the site's slogan—"Grimmest and Most Frostbitten Kvlt of Fool's Gold"—which Google's AI overview spun up a completely nonsense answer for: "The grimmest, most frostbitten "kvlt" (cult) of fool's gold is Iron Pyrite (FeS2)." Google further explained that the "'Kvlt aspect" was due to fool's gold being "often considered more valuable than real gold in the fictional universe of Azeroth (World of Warcraft)." Whatever, man.
