That's "disturbing"? I've used imperfect tools before and still thought they were great. It's mildly interesting someone's mental state would be so affected by that.
It’s not that different than arguing against someone by quoting the experts either.
They could be wrong, you could be full of shit and cute just the experts who agree with you. The other side needs to verify what you are saying. With LLMs that’s just easier to accept I think.
It’s like they’ve completely outsourced their thinking to the LLM.