why not to trust AI

In the office today, I was working on material for a workbook. The vocabulary focus was on the word consequent, but used as a noun. The only example I could personally think of, for the nominal use of consequent, comes from the world of logical fallacies. The fallacy that came to mind is called affirming the consequent.

Wikipedia offers a technical explanation and example:

In propositional logic, affirming the consequent... is a formal fallacy of taking a true conditional statement (e.g., "if the lamp were broken, then the room would be dark") under certain assumptions (there are no other lights in the room, it is nighttime and the windows are closed), and invalidly inferring its converse ("the room is dark, so the lamp must be broken"), even though that statement may not be true under the same assumptions. This arises when the consequent ("the room would be dark") has other possible antecedents (for example, "the lamp is in working order, but is switched off" or "there is no lamp in the room").

My own example might be this pair of propositions:

If God existed, he would create an ordered universe.

The universe is ordered; therefore God exists.

The universe could be ordered for completely natural reasons totally disconnected to God.

Anyway, more to the point: when I typed "consequent as a noun in a sentence" into Google, Google's new AI feature helpfully popped up to provide what it thought were good example sentences. Here's what the AI gave me:

The word consequent can be used as a noun to describe something that follows something else, with or without a causal relationship. Here are some examples of consequent used as a noun in a sentence:

• "The introduction of smart assistants such as Alexa has pioneered a new era of voice-search ubiquity and the consequent web accessibility".
• "It is typically found in shallow deposits and is mined, instead of drilled, with a consequent impact on the environment".
• "The consequent retraining led to lower operating efficiencies on new products".

I have a couple of complaints. One is the British punctuation (is Google's AI British?), placing the period outside of the quotation mark. While I happily concede that British punctuation makes more logical sense (I can explain that in a different post if you want), the Amurrican way is to tuck things like commas and periods inside the quotation marks. Like it or not. But my biggest complaint is that none of the above examples is what I asked for. In each case, the word consequent comes before a noun, obviously modifying that noun, which means that, in each case, consequent is being used as an adjective: consequent accessibility, consequent impact, consequent retraining. In each case, consequent is a modifier, not a substantive. This ain't no noun, and AI done fucked up.

Don't trust AI. It's artificial, but it's not intelligent.

EPILOGUE: I ended up ditching that entire vocab focus. Middle schoolers don't need to know how to use consequent as a noun when its application is that narrow and esoteric.