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AI search has helped me find quick answers to some mundane things like how many grams in a cup so I can see some mild benefit there, but it’s still not something I feel like I need to find those answers. I’d also never trust it looking up anything important.
It's absolutely terrible with mundane things like that. It will find someone converting quantities of flour in US vs EU recipes, and use that same conversion for milk, or molten lead. But it fail to provide the original "flour" context, and expresses the resulting conversion with absolute confidence.
And because it is such a mundane piece of information, we tend to accept it without bothering to actually verify it.