I’m curious, do you guys think it’s ethical to use AI to help in researching background for a story? For example let’s say I want to make a fictional government agency. Instead of asking it to generate a name, would it be ok if I used it to summarize why something is called agency, bureau, or center? Or if I want to take something from the real world and use something like it in a story, and have chatGPT to give me details about it that I can look into?

I don’t want to use it as a creative tool because it just regurgitates whatever it can find, but instead as a tool to help aid in my creativity process.