Three slightly startling things happened more or less simultaneously, but nobody seems quite sure whether they were related or not. 

1. There was a HUGE solar flare. Or technically, 2 solar flares about 8 hours apart. 
2. A significant part of the worldwide cell phone network went dark, causing all sorts of low key havoc in the socioeconomic continuum.
3. ChatGPT had a total meltdown.  

#3 is by far the most entertaining, with the iconic AI app serving up nonsensical answers to ordinary queries, e.g.,

ensure that "sesquipedalian safes are cross-keyed and the consul's cry from the crow's nest is met by beatine and wary hares a'twist and at winch in the willow."

or just the eerily Shining-esque   
A synonym for "overgrown" is "overgrown" is "overgrown" is "overgrown" is "overgrown" ....

When asked later what could cause such strange behavior it suggested that it may have been suffering from "jumbled inceptions," "affected parts blindness," and "higher perplexity stoked in modules"