while I think this is 50-50 possible to be just a bad faith way to try to counter the reporting, I absolutely encounter this IRL--folks who refuse to believe a verifiable fact because it is counter to whatever their AI says, and treating the AI like it is a source itself.
While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot.
I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.
