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I mean, the article is pretty long, but it's pretty simple:
Don't use AI of any sort to be a source for an answer to your question.
Do use Wikipedia and check the sources referenced.
If not on Wikipedia, check a trusted source with a relatively long publishing history and known ownership. (this doesn't mean only stuff like The New York Times... Boing Boing for example has been around for a long, long time)
Use archive.org's Wayback Machine to get access to older articles, when necessary.
LLMs literally have to frame of reference to real life except the text they've ingested and they have no way to know which text is true or not. To an LLM, Alex Jones is just as valid a source as Mother Jones.