Your AI girlfriend didn’t even RTFM:
The word following the redirection operator in the following descriptions, unless otherwise noted, is subjected to brace expansion, tilde expansion, parameter and variable expansion, command substitution, arithmetic expansion, quote removal, filename expansion, and word splitting. If it expands to more than one word, Bash reports an error.
https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html/_node/Redirections.html