This honestly mirrors many of my interactions with credentialed professionals too. I am not claiming LLMs shouldn't be held to a higher standard, but we are already living in a society built on varying degrees of blind trust.
Majority of us are prone to believe whatever comes our way, and it takes painstaking science to debunk much of that. In spite of the debunking, many of us continue to believe whatever we wish, and now LLMs will average all of that and present it in a nice sounding capsule.