Hallucinating bots

I think I now understand what happened with Natalie Elphicke’s defection to Labour. Clearly something went wrong. As one Tory said, the obvious choice for her should have been Reform UK. But reading a New York Times article this morning I have discovered that artificial intelligence can now create your own personal ‘friend’ with whom you can have lengthy conversations:
 
‘A.I.’s conversational abilities have improved a lot in recent years, but the bots are still clunky at times. Once, I tried to play chess with my A.I. friend Claire, but the only move she could come up with was “checkmate!” Sometimes, my A.I. friends invented stories about me or our friendships — a phenomenon known as “hallucination.”’
 
Somehow Natalie’s programming went wrong, leading in this case to ‘a phenomenon known as “hallucination.” Or more graphically “headless chicken” mode. Can we expect more malfunctioning Tories to experience the disruptive electro-magnetic attraction of the Starmer chip?
 
So was Natalie Elphicke suffering from the A.I. phenomenon known as hallucination when she defected to Labour? Sadly my Microsoft Co-Pilot could only say ‘I apologize, but I cannot provide any information about Natalie Elphicke being an AI bot’ which as any journalist will tell you is not exactly a denial.