The BBC’s summer comedy creation Linda, a humanoid care robot from *Ann Droid*, written and acted by Diane Morgan, offers a warm, obedient vision of AI caregiving, easing fears about technology in old age. However, the article argues AI is decades away from satisfactory multi-skilled humanoid care robots, not due to lack of tech progress, but because AI lacks understanding of old age. Proof emerged at a recent event at the University of Stirling’s dementia services development centre, where postgraduate certificate students in designing for dementia and ageing—the only qualification of its kind—used a well-known AI platform to generate images for specialist accommodation. The results were hopeless, repeatedly producing grotesque, stigmatising mistakes despite dozens of prompts, including toilet seats as bedside cabinets, three-legged wheelchairs, patients with three arms, and steps in the middle of bathrooms. The article also notes concern over how psychiatric language has been anthropomorphised to describe AI errors, such as calling them “hallucinations” or “OCD” rather than mistakes. Postgrad student Jo Collier highlighted how this medicalisation is disturbing, stating human suffering is more than a computer bug, while earlier academic researchers suggested “bullshit” as a more appropriate noun than hallucination.