[Ruphin]

That sort of response seems not too different from the classic "let me google that for you". It seems to me that it is a way to express that the answer to the question can be "trivially" obtained yourself by doing research on your own. Alternatively it can be interpreted as "I don't know anything more than Google/ChatGPT does".

What annoys me more about this type of response is that I feel there's a less rude way to express the same.

[dghlsakjg]

Let me google that for you is typically a sarcastic response pointing out someone’s laziness to verify something exceptionally easy to answer.

The ChatGPT responses seem to generally be in the tone of someone who has a harder question that requires a human (not googleable), and the laziness is the answer, not the question.

In my view the role of who is wasting others time with laziness is reversed.

[rsynnott]

It's worse, because the magic robot's output is often _wrong_.

[michaelcampbell]

Well wrong more often. It's not like Google et al has a monopoly on truth.