[linuxftw]

You're overestimating the mean person's ability to search the web effectively.

[jgalt212]

And perhaps both are overestimating the mean person's ability to detect a hallucinated solution vs a genuine one.

[linuxftw]

I think hallucination is grossly overstated as a problem at this point, most models will actively search the web and reason about the results. You're much more likely to get the incorrect solution browsing stack overflow than you are asking AI.