I was willing to give ChatGPT the benefit of the doubt after being initially impressed with its results, but I've also had it confidently tell me blatantly wrong information when the correct information is a Google search away at most or no human would confidently make such a mistake.
What makes it worse is that it spits out paragraphs confidently, where some of it might be right or close to right, but the rest might be subtly incorrect. Without domain knowledge, you might not pick up on it. Hell, you might even be convinced of the false information based on the arguments for it that the AI writes out.
At least with search engines you can cross reference multiple sources if you aren't confident in your ability to assess the first thing you read.
What makes it worse is that it spits out paragraphs confidently, where some of it might be right or close to right, but the rest might be subtly incorrect. Without domain knowledge, you might not pick up on it. Hell, you might even be convinced of the false information based on the arguments for it that the AI writes out.
At least with search engines you can cross reference multiple sources if you aren't confident in your ability to assess the first thing you read.