I know that some students it to prepare for competitive tests, sometimes with very good results.
I've also been using it a lot recently to brush up on my math and physics knowledge from my graduate years. It has helped me clarify and understand a lot of concepts better.
That being said, there is no shortcut, and to be good at anything, one has to put in the work and the hours. However, information has never been as available as it is today.
A premature technology, known to be potentially harmful in its current state of development and established guidelines as to its effective use, is pushed by powerful and wealthy elite down the throat of society.
These same forces (and their unwitting helpers in the unmoneyed public) also wish to deflect with useless argumentation over "AI good" "AI bad".
The debate that we should have had: Is this tech actually mature enough for pervasive use in society.
Instead we get these entirely useless back and forths with anecdotal "works for me!" and "sucks for me!".
Adoption has been exponential. We don't need to be AI to be pushed down the throat. People use it because it works and it's useful to them.
> The debate that we should have had: Is this tech actually mature enough for pervasive use in society.
It's too late for this debate because this tech is already pervasively used, and there's no coming back. It's part of our lives.
What we need to do is understand the risks and adapt, probably regulate, educate. So we can get the best of this tech, and mitigate its risks.