> Supposing I accept that's a likely outcome, it's exactly the same thing that would have happened if a typical human shopper searched for Vitamin D and picked the top result, right?

Yeah sure, but humans (normally) only fall for a particular scam once. Because LLMs have no memory, they can scale these scams much more effectively!

and don't forget the one-day-of-entire-nation-of-bolivia tier electricity consumption just to get those dubious scans done

- It would be a more repeatable failure

- it could be gamed by companies in a new way

- it requires an incredibly energy-intensive backend just to prevent people from making a note on a scrap of paper