the residue of the meaning gap

Not failure. Not cringe. Not slop. Weird is what remains when a human/machine exchange produces something neither could have made alone, and you cannot cleanly decide whether it is profound or broken.

1. Irreducibleif it can be paraphrased into a normal explanation, it is not weird.
2. Found, not scriptedthe defining strange outcome was not authored in advance for an audience.
3. Era-relativeweird is measured against what counted as strange at the time.