>Learning something online 5 years ago often involved trawling incorrect, outdated or hostile content and attempting to piece together mental models without the chance to receive immediate feedback on intuition or ask follow up questions. This is leaps and bounds ahead of that experience.

Researching online properly requires cross referencing, seeing different approaches, and understanding various strenghts, weaknesses, and biases among such sources.

And that's for objective information, like math and science. I thought Grok's uhh... "update" shows enough of the dangers when we resort to a billionaire controlled oracle as a authoritative resource.

>Will some (most?) people rely on it lazily without using it effectively? Certainly, and this technology won't help or hinder them any more than a good old fashioned textbook.

I don't think facilitating bad habits like lazy study is an effective argument.And I don't really subscribe to this ineviability angle either: https://tomrenner.com/posts/llm-inevitabilism/