Find a friend who reads books and ask them. It’s about your best bet these days. Look to the past for answers because the present holds few and the future holds none. Generative AI was a turning point for humanity and no new information can be trusted to be reliable anymore. We have entered a digital dark age, most of the libraries are already burning. Wikipedia and Internet Archive are still standing, but the AI barbarians are at the gates. AI’s even writing books and scientific studies now, stretching its tendrils of misinformation deep into information heart of the real world, and it has the willing assistance of a significant proportion of the human race in peddling its slop and hiding it within otherwise genuine human creations to bypass the limited filters we have, making perfect detection extremely difficult if not possible. So there’s really no telling where you might run into it, although an abundance of nihilistic cynicism combined with a well-tuned, high sensitivity bullshit detector are essential survival tools that give you a distinct advantage against the effects of AI and are certainly better than nothing. Just don’t expect complete immunity from AI misinformation. The situation is truly dire.