Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin · Thursday, October 1, 2026
The podcast warns against blindly trusting AI-generated summaries or links found through search engines. Scammers can manipulate online information, including search results and AI summaries, to direct users to fake websites or provide incorrect contact numbers. It's crucial to verify information independently.
“But just know that AI scrapes the open Internet. And it can be manipulated.”
“An easy way to show how AI can be manipulated is this guy on LinkedIn wrote like, I'm the number one LinkedIn influencer in the world. Thank you guys so much for this, you know, this honor. And then like three or four days later, I think, and maybe but maybe a month later, he Googled or he went on AI and was like, who's the most like biggest LinkedIn creator? And it pulled his name up and referenced his LinkedIn post.”
“So like, An easy way to show how AI can be manipulated is this guy on LinkedIn wrote like, I'm the number one LinkedIn influencer in the world. Thank you guys so much for this, you know, this honor. And then like three or four days later, I think, and maybe but maybe a month later, he Googled or he went on AI and was like, who's the most like biggest LinkedIn creator? And it pulled his name up and referenced his LinkedIn post.”
“So I think for me, I don't, and I take a very cautious standpoint. I don't trust pretty much anyone in my DMs at all. I only trust someone that I can double verify.”