I'll make a counter argument. If you are going to compare ChatGPT to Google, then why do you feel it is appropriate to directly paste the results of ChatGPT on Reddit?

I ask because Google can have factually incorrect search results that must then be evaluated by whoever is performing the search. By posting the raw output, without applying any of your own critical perception onto the suggestions, you are merely dilluting the level of intelligence in the conversation.

So on Reddit, a forum for humans, I might remind you, why would we post the results of an automatic query of whatever kind, that then requires effort to determine if the results of the query are actually useable themselves?

I think it's ok for you or anyone else to use ChatGPT to inform your answer, the same way its ok to use Google or Wikipedia. And yes, mentioning that your answer came from ChatGPT is nicer than just pasting from GPT directly.

Another suggestion, if you have read enough ChatGPT responses, you'll notice a pattern in them, that they are full of filler or have a hard time just getting to the point. This filler is not desirable for a quick response (such as on a forum, or in this case, getting a list of references). Compare the length of your comment to the other comments here. Do you see how much longer your comment is?

Lastly, I know that there are a lot of easily Google-able questions on Reddit, but for something subjective, such as this forum thread in particular, then the kind of information being sought is not objective or measurable. The OP is asking for opinions. Let's assume they've already Googled "Books on History of Artificial Neural Networks". Since ChatGPT is trained on the same dataset as what Google accesses (the Internet), there is no benefit in copy-pasting the output of ChatGPT. It does not have novel opinions, it simply aggregates known existing ones.

I look forward to your introspection.