A plumber comes over to repair a broken water heater. He looks at it, taps a pipe with his wrench, and it's fixed. He hands the customer a bill for $500. The customer becomes angry because all the plumber did was tap a pipe, and demands to see an itemized bill.
The plumber dutifully provides the bill:
* Pipe tapping: $5
* Knowing where to tap: $495
Customer: $500 for 10 minutes of work? That's more than I make as a brain surgeon.
Plumber: It's more than I made as a brain surgeon too.
I can tap a pipe in a random spot for a lot less than $500.
pipe tapping: $5
knowing where to tap: $95
taking on the legal liability and accountability in case the water heater explodes: $400
ChatGPT is more than capable of telling you where to tap, but you can't sue openAI if it gets it wrong and your water heater explodes.