Missed most of what you said? I just want to argue? Dude I gave you a proper response.

You're justifying taking wrong answers from AI by saying that the other options are just as bad or worse, am I wrong that premise? You're saying stuff like "I could go on reddit or some other forum and have a bunch of assholes talk down to me for asking questions" or "the media, troll accounts, disinformation bots, indoctrination funnels etc rile people up to hate each other"

You're implying that going online and asking people directly is the only alternative to using AI. That's called a false dichotomy.

In reality, you can just research this information yourself. Look up the square area of fingernails, then look up the volume of the grand canyon, then divide it. It doesn't involve asking someone to do it for you, and it doesn't involve asking an AI to give you a confidently wrong answer that's several orders of magnitude off.

So since there are more options outside of just asking strangers online, no, AI use is not justified.

That's what I'm saying. I don't just "want to argue", I want to point out that your justification is flawed. And I'm doing so in a well spoken and polite way. The only difference is now I'm taking hundreds of words to do so.

I love how your first go to was “figure it out yourself” which is a common thing I see whenever somebody researches the ever loving fuck about something and asks for some help filling in the last part

Ummmm, no. No single example anywhere here involves someone doing 99% of the research and asking for the last 1%. All the examples have been for point blank questions, even your own examples. You're trying to downplay the laziness of asking strangers to do your research by pretending the asker has already done lots of work, and that downplaying is pretty much admitting you know you're being lazy.

What the fuck is the point of asking a question to be told go do it yourself?

So you think having the ability to ask a question entitles you to command the time of strangers online? Sorry bud, sometimes you get free help and sometimes people mock you. That's what you get for asking a stranger to volunteer their free time.

Ai has been available to developers and SEO specialists fully 2-3 years before everybody got all tingly about Chat GPT, meaning an ever increasing amount of information available online is Ai nonsense anyway.

So now you're arguing against doing you're own work because you're saying all the information online is wrong anyways. Even though you can just validate the information yourself by checking sources and using your critical thinking. Really you just want any excuse to use AI instead of researching it to completion yourself.

What are our options for asking questions if we’ve hit a dead end or know something is out of our capability to research?

If it's out of your capability to research, and you can't find someone to explain it to you (which sometimes involves attending university or paying for classes, information isn't always free), then you're out of options. Going to AI and getting a WRONG answer is not an alternative. It's not an option.

Either keep trying until you actually succeed, or accept that the information is unattainable.