I have to imagine these types of features are for people who treat chatgpt like their friend/therapist/girlfriend/assistant/... instead of people who use it to answer questions

You shouldn't really use it to answer questions either though, because then you won't know how wrong it is when it's hallucinating...

I mean I know the draw, it's just so easy to get suckered into it... After all, it's usually mostly correct! And since the Advent of llms searching via Google has gotten essentially impossible with 1000 slop articles per one genuine article... But the danger is real, even with eg fable