[orthogonal_cube]

> The stigma comes from people being lazy and letting the AI do the heavy lifting of thinking.

This is essentially my point. The AI emits an answer and people will, in turn, copy and paste the result as-is. It’s a repeat all over again of people simply copy-pasting something from Wikipedia and trying to pass it off as their own.

[snoren]

Exactly. The tool isn't the problem. The effort is. Wikipedia didn't make research worse. Copy-pasting Wikipedia without reading it did. Same pattern, different tool.