@annaleen this is why I think the best term for it (in any context) is just "bullshitting". Plausible seeming nonsense pronounced with confidence is just bullshit. It's bullshit when it's a guy who just read two Wikipedia articles and decided he's an expert on epidemiology or geopolitical strategy and it's bullshit when it's a LLM stringing together tokens probabilistically without any ability to conceptualize anything at all including the topic at hand or the idea of "truth"