People are sadly already treating it as such. "But ChatGPT said" "but Claude did this instead" is what I hear from 1/3 of people at the very least...

Don't get me wrong, LLMs can be a great tool - if you know how to use them. They're great for research, because they can formalise a half-assed question into a proper query, provide extra terminology you can include in your search terms and so on. But you have to keep in mind that it's not a super-intelligent all-knowing thing. It is at best a thesaurus. And you have to use it accordingly.

Sadly most people think of it as a direct search engine.