You talk about not using open source software, what about contributing to Wikipedia? Or that kind of project? Interesting in food ? Help Open Food Facts. In plants Plantnet! Etc.
Love your "adjust your mental model" sentence. Let's talk about the judge using it in ruling, or your doctor for diag... No problem for you?
And now that it is listed as co-author on research papers (real)? Then using this source to reinforce his model!
I really think it is a lot more than a grain of salt my man.
[edit] AI is not all bad, just fun ;)
"Is chatGPT accurate?"
https://www.perplexity.ai/?s=u&uuid=c97b4388-958f-45cb-a0ae-...
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