Just apple things

Nah, I feel like it's one of those trade offer memes:

I get: To replace your critical thinking skills

You get: To help us use the energy and water equivalent to a small nation

Never felt like a good deal, you know?

Yeah, but why are you asking like you wonder?

have you tried looking up anything recently? the internet sucks, and it's only getting worse.

If I ask the lying machine, I'll at least get an answer. There's a not insignificant chance that the answer will be wrong, but at least it's an answer.

We outsource various processes all the time. I can learn to cook a good meal, or I can go to a variety of restaurants. I can build my own house, or I can buy or rent. I can learn about a topic, or I can ask someone in the field and get an overview of the topic to better direct my own studies. I can type a request into a search engine, review the results, and select the one I believe is most relevant for me. I can ask a question in some LLM AI or other, review their sources, and pick the one most relevant to me.

We already outsource a lot of our brains to other devices. This is why writing was invented. Certainly, using AI to do the thinking for you can have negative consequences. Using AI as a search engine, likely less so, or no worse than using a more legacy search engine would. There are other very good reasons to not use AI in a lot arenas, which is why I very rarely use it. But even a bad tool can have utility in the right circumstance.