I don’t think it’s ai garbage that gets hyped into everything (see: gen ai)
It’s more akin to video call platforms having the “green screen with any background” feature. It just finds the foreground objects and removes everything else. It’s a pretty standard feature that’s been around for a while.
I have never seen this error and don’t know the cause
However, based on when it happens to you, it could be some weird caches or config files got overwritten and something did not like it. I know I’ve often had to delete plasma cache because something screwed up.