Wellbutrin-brain zaps is an uncommonly demonstrative case because Wellbutrin is an antidepressant but "antidepressants," on its own basically always refers to SSRI/SNRIs, and S*RIs are the only thing in the clinical literature known to cause brain zaps. (fwiw, there are a couple of posts on r/bupropion asking about brain zaps; every one with an update turned out to be tapering off an S*RI at the same time. yea I checked very thoroughly while I was worrying about my brain zaps). An even moderately informed person will notice you're taking something different altogether and move on. A word association machine, however, because both "Wellbutrin" and "brain zaps" are so tightly associated with "antidepressant" connect the two together as closely as though there were some intrinsic association between the two, even though clinically they're completely unrelated. This is a really one-dimensional type of false correlation that's obvious from the outside but that doesn't mean that this kind of thing isn't going on constantly under the hood with subjects that are less available to the layperson than antidepressants. it just means that you won't notice it when it happens!
I first noticed that it was impossible to google anything about Wellbutrin sometime in the early 2020s. I used to check pretty regularly if I noticed some new issue whether it might be a medication side effect (now I just have to wait around and see if I die), and around then google results started including pages about "antidepressants," viz. SSRIs/SNRIs in searches specifically for "wellbutrin" or "bupropion." It would highlight "antidepressant" in the excerpt, which I obviously never used in the search because it was only one specific antidepressant I wanted info about. so the increasing shift to "natural language search" was doing this before LLMs were fluent enough at producing meaningless text to unleash them on the public. The difference now is you can get the wrong and irrelevant information "personalized" for you in a text message "from" your doctor's office, so people who might have been reading closely enough to notice that a google result was irrelevant might nevertheless let down their guard when it's represented to be from their own PA. Unless, like me, they had already been dealing with this specific form of misinformation about this exact subject for years
Anyway, I wish knowing about this form of LLM misinformation would protect me, and now you from it the next time it comes up! However, noticing it relies on already having some background information on the subject, so outside of just ignoring all LLM-generated text (and assuming all computer-transmitted text is LLM-generated, so essentially refusing to acquire new information; a thing which is at this point highly advisable but also, like, completely impractical) there's pretty much no way to protect yourself from this type of misinformation when other parties insert LLMs into communication channels. This is why I'm so adamant about not letting users off the hook. Yes, we are all getting by. The LLM user is just getting by in a way that makes it actively harder and less safe for everyone else who has the misfortune of coming into contact with them to do so
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