Exactly. People seem to have this idea about what an AI chat bot is supposed to be good at, like Data from Star Trek. People then dismiss it outright when the AI turns into Pris from Blade Runner when you push its buttons.
The other day I asked ChatGPT to impersonate a fictional character and give me some book recommendations based on books I've already read. The answers it gave were inventive and genuinely novel, and even told me why the fictional character would've chosen those books.
Tools are what you make of them.