Yep, that's it. Search results are just such a bad example. AI just convinces you -falsely- it's results are good, but they suck.

It may or may. not try to convince anything.

Often when we use a search engine, we're trying to piece together something that might be across multiple links, or a single link

Nope. AI has no idea and no complete picture and just acts like it does. Search engines at least give you everything they have.