Bergstrom's four-word caption — 'Am I losing my mind?' [18] — was a precise diagnostic, not a rhetorical flourish. The professor's essay did not hide the fabrication; it named it clearly and moved past it to an enthusiastic endorsement of total AI integration in his research practice. What Bergstrom identified was a new category of failure: not the model's error, but the practitioner's decision to treat that error as irrelevant to their overall assessment. That decision, made publicly in an essay and then amplified through science communication networks on Bluesky,…