I expect many of us are beginning to see student essays that are partly or wholly generated by chatGPT and friends.  Reading these is a strange experience.  The texts are like a fever-dream of a real essay.  Almost correct, often plausible, strangely vague, sometimes insanely wrong and sometimes quite fantastical.   They are textual versions of the AI pictures "woman laughing alone with salad," with two rows of teeth and indeterminate numbers of fingers.

One of my favourite features is imagined bibliographies.  We all enjoyed the hilarious fake indological bibliography in Lee Siegel's Love in a Dead Language.  Now, chatGPT is producing its own almost-real bibliographical entities.  E.g., from one of my students this term,