And generative AI made it even worse, probably worse than any single thing before it.

Now you're being fed incorrect answer by the search engine built in llm, it's impossible to find legit reviews: they're either sponsored reviews or written by bots, image search is next to useless, it's impossible to find a recipe, you can't tell if they're legit or if they're written by an LLM and will completely fall apart because as it turns out the best cookie recipe isn't the average of all known cookie recipes