You could invent a new word, but that doesn’t help people understand the problem.
You are looking for an existing word that describes providing unintentionally incorrect thoughts but is totally unrelated to humans. I suspect that word doesn’t exist. Every thinking word gets anthropomorphized.
Inflation is only a recent phenomenon.
https://nma.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/historic_gold_prices_1833_pres.pdf