It was actually the entire internet. It didn't matter what the search engine came back with, anything on the internet was suspect.

Then it was Wikipedia. Since anyone could update it, anything on Wikipedia was suspect.

Now even though Claude seems smarter than any person I interact with on a daily basis, it is all suspect.

Then there is the opposite with arxiv. Anything on arxiv is not just true but has authority in an argument, automatically. Everything besides papers on reproducibility. Those are basically ignored.

Epistemology is not our strong point.