Is using the Google AI as bad as using Chat GPT??

Hi, I'm in Y12, studying English Literature, History (and Art). I kind of simultaneously hate and love AI, it definitely makes my brain a lot slower but sometimes its really useful. I mostly use google though. Sometimes when I have a quote for English and I have analysed the heck out of it, I will put it into google and see if there is anything I have missed (which maybe defeats the point a bit because analysis is meant to be 'original', but what is actually original in this day of age??) I also use google for when I'm making flashcards for history and the textbook is not helping. Now google has this AI feature, (which is really useful ngl when you are doing a quick search and want a summary) but I'm just worried that using it rather than going through the websites etc myself will make me dumber and more likely to plagiarise/even less original. Should I try and avoid it or is that stupid? Is it cheating to use google?? I know most of my friends rely on Chat GPT, I just want to retain my critical thinking skills (what's left of them anyways). Lowkey a luddite, would happily go back to the 80s/90s and study the old fashioned way with textbooks lol, I think it was much simpler.

Hi, I'm in Y12, studying English Literature, History (and Art). I kind of simultaneously hate and love AI, it definitely makes my brain a lot slower but sometimes its really useful. I mostly use google though. Sometimes when I have a quote for English and I have analysed the heck out of it, I will put it into google and see if there is anything I have missed (which maybe defeats the point a bit because analysis is meant to be 'original', but what is actually original in this day of age??) I also use google for when I'm making flashcards for history and the textbook is not helping. Now google has this AI feature, (which is really useful ngl when you are doing a quick search and want a summary) but I'm just worried that using it rather than going through the websites etc myself will make me dumber and more likely to plagiarise/even less original. Should I try and avoid it or is that stupid? Is it cheating to use google?? I know most of my friends rely on Chat GPT, I just want to retain my critical thinking skills (what's left of them anyways). Lowkey a luddite, would happily go back to the 80s/90s and study the old fashioned way with textbooks lol, I think it was much simpler.

I don't think that googling things to see if there's anything you missed in your analysis is OK, given it entirely misses the point that you won't have access to the internet during your exams. The same idea applies to the Google AI summary, which as a sidenote, I've found to say factually incorrect information sometimes. There's also a strong correlation between the use of AI and loss of critical thinking skills so maybe don't use AI to do your homework?