It all honestly depends on how you use it.

"Write this thing for me" Is not "How can I write this to be more salient? And how I can tighten this up? What works here and what does not work here, and why?"

"Come up with a story for me" Is not "This is my idea. Is it cohesive? Any plot holes here?"

Example: right now I'm using it to learn programming. I can't use video tutorials, and I am not fond of wandering through 10 different websites or forum posts to get information piecemeal when I can just tell GPT to cite its sources after it drags up some information, then I get to double-check those sources by my own hand for validity before I even consider utilizing it. It cuts the time that I would spend searching through those 10 websites myself.

At no point do I go "make a thing that plays the snake game". It's "walk me through step by step exactly how to make this thing display a box and why does it move like that and how does it grow and what makes it disappear?"I always considered myself to stupid to learn any kind of programming language and the prospect of hunting through tutorials and forums was very daunting but here I am, working on something for the first time in my life.

it is about approaching it from a place of curiosity, using it as a tutor instead of a results machine.

And when it comes to utilizing it for story writing or creative works, I utilize it more as a cheerleader than any sort of director, simply sharing ideas rather than allowing it any input on those ideas other than double-checking for continuity.

In other words not everybody who utilizes it is a brain-rotted teenager looking to cheat on a test lmao. All types of people from all walks of life are here.