My experience is that the vast majority of people do 0 research (AI assisted or not) before asking questions online. Questions that could have usually been answered in a few seconds if they had tried.
If someone preface a question by saying they've done their research but would like validation, then yes it's in incredibly poor taste.
The "let me Google that for you" was more trying to get people to look up trivial things on their own, rather than query some forum repeatedly.
they're more clueless than condescending
That's not like pasting in a screenshot or a copy/paste of an AI answer, it's being intentionally dismissive. You weren't actually doing the "work" for them, you were calling them lazy.
The way I usually see the AI paste being used is from people trying to refute something somebody said, but about a subject that they don't know anything about.
No. With Google you get many answers. With AI you get one. Also we know that AI is unreliable with some possibility, it’s highly probable that you can get a better source on Google than that. This is especially bad when the question is something niche. So, it’s definitely a worse version of lmgtfy.
When you put it that way I guess it kind of is.
> If someone preface a question by saying they've done their research but would like validation, then yes it's in incredibly poor taste.
100% agree with you there
udm=14 my beloved
Which was just as irritating.