Google "AI Spew" Epic Fail: Butchering Science Fiction Icon Ursula Le Guin's Work

For Words of the Day, “expert,” I wanted to cite to five-time Nebula-, five-time Hugo Award winner Ursula Le Guin, in her The Lathe of Heaven, from which I felt sure the passage “Mr. Orr is an expert in tangibles” had come to mind, as such passages do. Out of habit, I searched on Google to verify the quote, as one does, or did, and received the following AI View, which I have helpfully annotated.

Trump Administration Swiftly Moves Ahead on Plans to Restrict Voting by Mail in the States

Lambert here: Going all the way back to Florida 2000, I can’t recall a single case where Republican tinkering with the voter rolls has been done in good faith, or was even competent from a data management perspective. Change my mind! On another note, it’s amusing to see a Republican use the phrase “fighting for,” for which the implied corollary, at least for Democrats has always been but “no winning MY SUBLIMINAL… please. We’re Democrats.”).