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Machine learning is here to stay. This is really just the beginning of mass market adoption for it, there's still a lot of room for the tech to grow.
I really don't think your representation is fair. For Chat gpt at least, it will sometimes be wrong, it will sometimes make things up, but is an extremely useful tool for getting quick answers and meaningful insight into questions.
But if we know that it makes things up and gets things wrong, how can we trust any information it gives us? Fact-checking is one thing, but at that point, you might as well skip the LLM and just look the information up yourself.
At the end of the day you can't 100% trust anything you see on the internet. You have to think critically about the answers it gives you and cross reference it against other sources. No different than when evaluating search results, which can also be wrong. But it's a great starting point.
It's a lot easier to get a thorough and concise answer from chat gpt and double check it than it is to wade through a search engine.