It has nothing to do with AI, I see it as highlighting the irony in the “pull yourself up by the bootstraps”/grind set mentality. They’re stuck in a situation where their options and capabilities are limited, and rather than suggesting something realistic or achievable they’re being recommended things that are impossible to do while stranded at sea.

You could possibly make some “let them eat cake” type allegory as well.

Unfortunately, this is the kind of advice that regular people used to give unemployed folks before LLMs were in use. But you’re on track in that it’s making fun of that bad advice.

You asked an hallucination generator about information, then asked it to hallucinate about the source of the hallucination, and then got satisfied when it hallucinated a reason as to why the rest were hallucinations?

AI is brilliant enough to make even its critics believe that it’s anything more than a slop machine, that’s already impressive.

depends on the open sea, don’t you think?

Idk, seems pretty plausible to me. Like, what if one of the crew members took his crossbow and shot an albatross? Then you’d expect it to be as idle as a painted ship upon a painted sea.