I think the cognitive dissonance in these boomers treating AI like God is that they did not go to school in the time of internet institutional access, all of their research sources were through library books.
Nowadays the vast majority of academic research, papers, any highlevel information, is owned and distributed by databases like HeinOnline, WorldCat, Westlaw, etc. and are only accessible to people with institutional access (yes you can get access to some of these databases through your public library or by making an account, but the pay barrier still exists for LLMs).
In order for chat GPT and similar AI programs to have access to those resources, they have to pay for the use rights, which they largely dont at the moment (they’re too busy going bankrupt building data centers).
So asking AI anything is like asking a random man off the street to run a google search for you--it cant replace a doctor or a lawyer with special access to the right answers.
The internet is not a public library despite what the boomers may believe.
