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Minecraft with object impermanence

I generally am uninterested in generative AI that's too close to the real thing. But every once in a while there's a modern AI thing that's so glitchy and broken that it's strangely compelling. There's this generative AI knockoff of Minecraft that fails so hard at being Minecraft that it

A natural cave turns in three frames from a sort of plausible looking feature in the side of a mountainside, to a weirdly smooth shadow on an ill-defined crease in the landscape. Note that the tiny bush on the left is about two blocks wide, then becomes a clump of about 20 bush-blocks as I get closer, then morphs into a lush forest with deep green leaves and thick trunks. I thought at this point I would be back to normal gameplay, but something about this landscape was still incredibly unstable and shortly I was looking at two suns through yellow and green jell-o?

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