One of the problems with labelling automation as AI.

People think that whatever information an "AI" spits out has gone through a round of critical thinking which enhances the trust value of that information.

The early LLM's using groomed data may have had such critical thinking somewhere in the pipeline. So it was already not really trustworthy.

And now? Using agents to search the internet for you?...

Garbage in, garbage out still applies in computing as ever.