This 'parroting stuff it's heard some place, without actually reasoning its relevance' is one of the features of generative LLMs that - like so much else of their output - reminds me of the braying, privately educated bullshitters that inhabit the realms of finance and politics in the UK (ex-PM Boris Johnson being the classic example). I imagine you have them in the US as well. Trotting out stuff that initially sounds plausible, but in fact makes no sense, having been simply copy-pasted from a different context, without analysis or understanding.