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> Same logic applies to using Google, I guess? Or any mapping app? How about Yelp?

Not necessarily. The same logic would apply if you were just robotically using Google user ratings (e.g. "this is nearby and it has 5 stars, lets go there"), but it wouldn't if you looked through the results and used some taste, judgement, and experience.

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There seems to be this assumption that if you ask AI for input, somehow you've turned into a slave that isn't capable of critiquing its response and integrating it into a larger decision-making process.

Why do people make that assumption? That would be the dumbest possible way to use AI.

One of the major stories from the rise of AI tooling was when people cooked a recipe that included glue.

I don’t think it’s unfair to assume some non-trivial percentage of people use these tools in a very dumb way.

That's fair. But refusing to date somebody because you assume they're using it in the dumbest possible way seems a bridge too far.

Maybe it is. Humans are weird creatures; we draw all manner of lines in the sand on different issues, some rational and others not.

I hope we get some interesting psychological studies out of this sort of story in the coming years. Maybe we can learn a thing or two about ourselves.

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