“Get me some oil so I can tap this tight hole. You’re going to need to screw it hard, and then drop a double nut on it. Make sure to keep your bush clean, or you can try sticking your finger in and twisting it around, otherwise you’ll never get this hard shaft into it. And remember: if it’s walking funny when you drill, try putting the tip between a pair of nuts.”

Maybe a bit more machining, but it’s not even a stretch to make it sound absolutely terrible. Those are all even pretty reasonable statements in context (if you know zero slang), not just isolated words.

Based on the evidence, I think I’m a bit more of a simpleton who puts in a good effort at the start but loses steam partway through. I guess thanks for the support though.

“Correlates”? As in: “It gives you the answer it best correlates with your prompts/context.” Feels somewhat right both in the sense of AI as tensor-based word-select autocomplete and as a “lower-level” process than genuine thought, one which turns incongruent inputs (“I’m an AI” and “I just deleted prod+backup”) into meaningless output (“The AI is sorry”) that might look OK at a distance.