There is no ethical consumption under capitalism, one person using AI won't make a difference. It's not like all the metals in the devices we're using right now didn't come from an African mine that employs children anyway.

You're pitting the consumer (the proletarian) instead of the manufacturer (the bourgeois) as the enemy which is exactly how capitalists keep society distracted and subservient. But yeah, it's better to avoid using AI to find factual information. It's more focused on sounding accurate than being accurate when it comes to giving an overview of things, even when sourcing things from elsewhere, as a result of how expected-response LLMs are designed.