[mepiethree]

The above comment from MBCook captures it well but basically I would say that for the majority of people I know:

Cons: the rise of scams, carbon emissions, and, some think, existential risk.

Pros: ??? You can be more efficient at the email job you hate. And it gives you advice on gardening and home improvement so you don’t have to call your uncle.

Cons outweigh the pros

[rockemsockem]

Your pros list being empty is the real answer. Basically you don't know the pros because you haven't taken the time to find out.

Kinda delegitimizes your cons list too. I'm not going to bother word-by-word checking your work.

[mepiethree]

Um, okay. The original question of “curious, why?” didn’t imply that I need respond with any level of rigor. I don’t think that the burden of proof should be on me to explain why ChatGPT is useful when I don’t believe it to be. But please feel free to not bother to pick apart my opinion ”word-by-word”. No one asked you to