Oh man you'd be shocked on Twitter. So many people have outsourced to AIs as arbiters of truth and reality. The number of "@grok is this true" "@perplexityai is this real" that pepper any post en masse is shocking and dismaying to me. In what I suppose shouldn't be a surprise but still stings, people seem to be offloading critical thinking and examination onto LLMs first, with usage as a tool for gathering context/additional points of research to go explore/hyper-efficient search engine etc. coming in a sadly distant next/N-th place.

Why do you assume they are using it that way and not ultimately using it "as a tool for gathering context/additional points of research"?