> only really trust your own personal bubble.
I don't know how you got to this conclusion, but I trust my own thinking the least since it is my own personal bubble. Just because it is mine, doesn't make it good, it just makes it mine.
If the stakes are low, do whatever. But when you need solid answers, that is what rigor is for. You address the argument on merits, not who made it.
Don't suffer from open loop opinions, even your own.
These models get ever better at producing plausible text. Once they permeate the academia completely, we're cooked.
And even academia is not clean for some matters, or complete.