The situation is closer to if we had 10,000 variants of Encyclopedia Britannica in 80s that all looked like distinct bodies of work, riddled with different errors while looking like they were written from scratch.
What is the difference to the end user? Our situation is better than it was yesterday not worse.
If we had a genie who could appear out of nowhere and tell us the truth TM at any point that would kind of ruin the adventure .
Who reads the output of a book or Wikipedia or a website or an AI and thinks oh good now I know the core truth of this thing and I never need to update this knowledge ever again case closed