They presented to you a reasonable use case (assisted learning) and your response was "lol, you're just lazy. Do it on your own. I did it, so can you".
I am in a similar position, networking is Martian to me and if I search guides on how to do stuff, it's full of people that go "just use X to do a reverse proxy", as if I have 200h of experience under my belt. I'd rather have a chatbot explain to me like I am 5 in some cases.
Maybe because students are using it anyways, so it's better to teach how to use it responsibly, check for sources and not to trust blindly anything it outputs. But I am being optimistic.
Normally if there are postive effects from a drug, they get studied further and re-marketed as such. If I remember correctly, Viagra was originally a medicine for heart conditions.
No, the director is laundering money. The movie critic is the one stuck watching the crappy movies.