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The internet's evolution has been rapid and, some would argue, troubling. A stark example of this shift is illustrated through a recent personal experience involving a Google search for "George Strombo married." Instead of a straightforward answer, an AI-generated blurb falsely claimed that the Canadian journalist was married to someone named Din Wangdu, and that they had hired punk band Rancid for their wedding. Curious, the user investigated further and discovered the misinformation stemmed from a tweet by Strombo, which AI had naively scraped without understanding context. In reality, Strombo had mentioned Rancid played the wedding of Adam Yolk (MCA, from the Beastie Boys) and his wife Duchin Wandu, who sadly passed away in 2012.