Let’s try it with other stuff:
“Looking at solutions on stack overflow outsources your brain”
“Searching arxiv for literature on a subject outsources your brain”
“Reading a tutorial on something outsources your brain”
There’s nothing that makes ChatGPT et al appreciably different from the above, other than the tendency to hallucinate.
ChatGPT is a better search engine than search engines for me, since it gives links to cite what it’s talking about and I can check those, but it pays attention to precisely what I asked about and generally doesn’t include unrelated crap.
The only complaint I have is the hallucinations, but it just means I have to check its sources, which is exactly the case already for something as mundane as Wikipedia.
Ho hum. Maybe take some time to reevaluate your conclusions here.