You could never believe everything you read online, but with enough time and effort, you could chase any claim back to its original source.
For example, you could read something on Statista.com, you could see the credits of that dataset, and visit the source to verify. Or you randomly encounter some quote and then visit your favourite Snopes-like website to verify that the person actually said that.
That's what's under attack. The "middleware" will still be there, but the source is going to be out of your reach. Hallucinations are not a bug, but a feature.
If you can't trace something back to its source, it's suspect. It was that way then too. I suppose you're just concerned there's a firehose of disinformation now.
So perhaps we have to just slough off the internet completely, the way we always have for things like weekly rags about "Bat Boy" or whatever.
I hate to see the internet go, but we'll always have Paris.
For example, you could read something on Statista.com, you could see the credits of that dataset, and visit the source to verify. Or you randomly encounter some quote and then visit your favourite Snopes-like website to verify that the person actually said that.
That's what's under attack. The "middleware" will still be there, but the source is going to be out of your reach. Hallucinations are not a bug, but a feature.