I'm not sure the analogy is the same. To me it seems more like plagiarizing an essay or copying homework answers from Chegg or something like that. You haven't

I'm not sure the analogy is the same. To me it seems more like plagiarizing an essay or copying homework answers from Chegg or something like that. You haven't gained a new skill, you've just mindlessly pasted an answer from somewhere else. You CAN certainly use tools like ChatGPT in a powerful and useful way that amplifies your own abilities instead of atrophying them. >Now enter chatgpt. Here goes the ability to hone arguments, forge essays, etc, etc. Gone! It's just not the same. If you take an essay prompt and just paste it into ChatGPT and then paste the output into your homework submission what skill exactly are you exercising or learning? There IS value in having to think about a problem and make a coherent argument in text form and you certainly lose that if you never practice it because you just let ChatGPT do it. At least with some of the current models, e.g. ChatGPT, we can't even be sure of the veracity of it's outputs so not only are you not learning any skills you can potentially output blatantly false information as well.