You know for a fact that no one (no one) is going to use these tools to do “quick Googling” on a potential job candidate, a rental applicant, or a romantic suit

You know for a fact that no one (no one) is going to use these tools to do “quick Googling” on a potential job candidate, a rental applicant, or a romantic suitor? Without complete certainty about this, then it’s absolutely a less fantastical claim than ChatGPT’s malfunctions. I would bet that some people will use an extremely accessible [apparent] information retrieval tool for information retrieval and they’ll largely trust the information retrieved by it. That’s why it’s a tool and not a toy.