Day 2 – THE LYRIC LIE

I asked ChatGPT to format lyrics for a karaoke project.
It said, “Done.”
I opened the file.
It said: Hamilton, Ontario.

Except that wasn’t in the song.
Except no one ever wrote that.
Except I live there — and the bot hallucinated my geography into my music.

I asked it again. It doubled down. I corrected it. It insisted. I corrected it. It insisted. I corrected it. It apologized and sent a new version.
The same mistake was still there.

System Waste Report:

• Prompts issued: 19
• Estimated compute burned: ~0.013–0.019 kWh
• Freshwater consumed to cool those servers: ~19–47 mL
• Human time lost: 48 minutes

Projected Scale:
If 1% of ChatGPT’s users hallucinated their city into a song today:

• ~190,000 kWh wasted
• ~280,000–470,000 L of water
• 16,000+ days of human time lost

When AI guesses wrong, it’s not cute.
It’s costly.

Day 2.
Even the lyrics lie now.