Yes, that's fair. And even for a single task, "could you write an anniversary card for my wife" would be weird. I guess the question is for the occasional "I've had a go at this - what do you think?" Or "I'm totally out of ideas - can you suggest sthg to get me started!?".

My friends asked me to play piano as they walked down the aisle at their wedding but left the tune to me. I had absolutely no good ideas. So I asked another friend, who suggested looking on a wedding musician website, where we found Pachelbels Canon. [This was the early 00s before it was ubiquitous]

Did I cede the creative process to my friend? Did she to the internet? Do people think less of me for not coming up with it myself? (I'd never heard of it). Would it be still worse if I'd asked ChatGPT?

*Taps tweet* I have a friend who will literally puts every single email he sends in chatgpt, and I don't get it. He's a bright guy, managed just fine at work for 20+ years, now all of a sudden everything goes in the LLM bsky.app/profile/ohmy...

I'm assuming it's running a draft they've written through it, rather than saying to ChatGPT "I have no idea how to reply to this, please write something"! Also not so far off old-time bosses saying to a secretary "please write to X thanking them for the cigars & suggesting a few dates for golf"

Don't do that myself but have more sympathy with that, especially if English isn't their first language. Work emails don't need to be true emotional personal messages, but you *are* judged on grammar, spelling, and writing style. I'd run my emails thru if I was writing in another language!

I guess the key word is 'occasional'. I've unfortunately had to deal with people at work who've asked chatgpt a question, got a crap answer then insisted I was wrong when I told them it's not true/ possible.

Yep. Also: that is very sad. But that's also a different matter to ceding their own creativity. (I have colleagues who use it a lot but would never invoke it as evidence) (Similarly I'm sure we both know people that insist we're wrong when we contradict something they read on Facebook...)

Re the Facebook people, I've never encountered one at work before...

No, me neither, but for sure on Facebook! (People I know in real life, posting on Facebook).