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I think it is a good learning tool if you use it as such. I use it for help with google sheets functions (not my job or anything important, just something I'm doing), and while it rarely gets a working function out, it can set me on the right track with functions I didn't even know existed.
We used to have web forums for that, and they worked pretty okay without the costs of LLMs
This is a little off topic but we really should, as a species, invest more heavily in public education. People should know how to read and follow instructions, like the docs that come with Google sheets.
Is something that is so often wrong a good learning tool when there are online resources?
When you can ask a specific question and get related information in the same amount of time opening the web page for documentation/"online resources" takes, why bother?
My brother used his during a board game yesterday when we encountered something we weren't sure about rule-wise. The manual is 20-pages long and we hoped to short circuit things. It gave us a nice explanation, even formatted it into a table for ease of reading. The answer ended up being completely wrong.