The Trust Tax

Last week I asked an AI assistant which lightweight tripod to buy for hiking, and the answer came back in under a minute with a clean comparison table and four cited sources. Then I opened the process logs for the assistant to see what the system actually did while it worked, and there wasn&rsquo;t a single web lookup in there. Four citations, and not one of them had been &lsquo;found&rsquo; on…