I use it all the time. It is a good partner to challenge me, when I am looking for other points of view. “I believe x due to y. Challenge my point of view”
It helps me explore a topic fast, so that I know the lingo to search for it myself. I use it for making low stakes decisions where it often succeeds, such as shopping and research for shopping. I validate the results every time.
Is it net negative for society, not sure, maybe? Will it go away, no. So we should embrace it, but not the big tech AI, but smaller LLMs.
Often you don’t know what you don’t know. So your reflection and argumentation has to be based on something. In order to achieve your goal you also have to do research in order for it to be sufficiently valuable.
LLMs are great for finding “what you don’t know” fast.
This strengthens your ability to both reflect and research topics manually. Which should be the last stop.