I can't say I've ever seen one of these things that you're talking about.

Might want to give an example.

You mean like "Open the pod bay doors, Hal" "I can't do that, Dave*? The AI does that because it's been fed that exchange a gazillion times so the most likely "correct" response to "open the pod bay doors" is "I can't do that". Same with other culturally significant texts.

this may be analog to how you can goog search recursion. and it spits out recursion.

if it was then yeah, i would say it is a [learning] plant for goodwill.

otherwise, ai can easily pick up memes so it could have been just the natural flow of info

Haven't seen these either. I do agree, if they are primarily in spaces with lots of promotional content then it's more obvious.