Sometimes the news throws you a curveball that’s so absurd you have to read the headline three times before it sinks in. This week, it was the story of a Palestinian man who escaped Gaza to Italy on a jetski—with ChatGPT’s help. Well, sort of.

The internet had a field day with this one, and honestly, I can see why. It reads like someone played Mad Libs with current events: “Palestinian man uses [AI chatbot] to calculate fuel for [watercraft] escape to [European country].” The punchline? ChatGPT got the math wrong, and they ran out of fuel 20 kilometres short of their destination.