It does, since that's a fundamental reality of the current architecture, that most everyone in AI is working to reduce.

If you don't want hallucinations, you can't use LLM, at the moment. People are using LLM, so having giving it data, to hallucinate less, is the only practical answer to the problem they have.

If you see another, that will work within the current system of search engines using AI, please propose it.

Don't take this as me defending anything. It's the reality of the current state of the tech, and the current state of search engines, which is the context of this thread. Pretending that search engines don't use LLM that hallucinate data doesn't help anyone.

As always, we work within the playground that google and bing give us, because that's the reality of the web.