Making effective use of chatgpt is very similar to making effective use of SO. The key to both is using them for your own personal parallel reconstruction.

Pasting a chatgpt response and saying “here’s what chatgpt says about X” is even lazier than linking to SO without providing context. It demonstrates laziness, and more importantly a lack of understanding of the topic.

Using either/both as tools to accelerate your knowledge on a topic, to the point you can confidently explain it in your own words, is simply making good use of the tooling available to us.