My wife's a librarian in a teaching hospital. A recent senimar reported the same problem all over the country -- people coming in asking for papers which don't exist. Chat GPT is making up sources and quoting them. That's whatever version the free option at chat.openai.com, or whatever app someone downloads, uses.
> Granted, it does normie stuff pretty well, like writing a data class or making HTTP request.
I find it really handy to find useful libraries in an unfamiliar language. I needed to deal with some network addresses in python, it introduced me to the ipaddress module. I'm not a software developer, I certainly don't keep up with the latest developments (which I'd define as anything post matts-script-archive), so things like that are valuable.