I feel like many people use AI to "google" things and don't understand how it actually works...

It's a language model. That means it's good at responding in a way that makes it look like it ✨ answers questions ✨, but it doesn't actually know that it's giving an answer to a question. It generates whatever dialogue is fitting to the context, so if you ask a question it will generate text that looks like an answer to a question. It can pull text from sources on the internet, and use that contextually, but since it doesn't know that it's replying to a question, it will often use text from things like reddit posts that were joking. This is the worst because it looks like it's searching the internet and finding information, but it's actually just searching the internet to create dialogue. All it really does is generate dialogue. If you want to use it to find an answer to your question, it would be much more beneficial to ask it for sources, and then read the sources instead of the generated dialogue – that's essentially the same as googling it yourself. All it does is have a conversation with you, without knowing that it's having a conversation (because it's a program, it's not sentient). I really think people need to keep this in mind, because it looks like a lot of people think it's understanding what it's doing, but it's really not; it has an enormous database of how people talk with each other, and the only reason it's capable of pretending to ask and answer questions is because it sees how people respond to certain types of text within its database. It just mimics that, with no real understanding of what's going on.