this can be skipped it didn't turn out as clever as I thought.. but if you are interested in AI still an interesting article and I briefly had fun throwing nonsense at Gemini
so while out securing my papacy I had to chuckle over this story in Wired about how a flaw in AI is that it will try to explain/provide an answer to what ever made up idiom you can think of.
https://www.wired.com/story/google-ai-overviews-meaning/But sadly the killjoys over at Google caught on to the use of "You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice" and have an explanation for being a fake idiom, etc
I threw at Gemini it "The Cat Got Lost In the Cupboard" a couple weeks ago and it did try to explain it, but sadly the looks like fixed this. The answer was then was "That's a fun and evocative phrase" and then tried to give explanation, now you get
"The cat got lost in the cupboard" is a literal phrase, meaning that a cat physically went into a cupboard and then couldn't find its way out.
It's not a common idiom or a phrase with a hidden, metaphorical meaning in English. If you heard someone say this, they would simply be describing a situation where their cat became stuck or disoriented inside a cupboard.
