Your Friend Asked You a Question. Don't Copy and Paste an Answer From a Chatbot

Your friend came to you because they respect your knowledge and opinion, and outsourcing the answer to a machine is lazy and rude. Just answer them yourself.

Back in the 2010s, a website called Let Me Google That For You gained a notable amount of popularity for serving a single purpose: snark.

The site lets you generate a custom link that you can send somebody who asks you a question. When they click the link, it plays an animation of the process of typing a question into Google. The idea is to show the person asking the question how easy it would have been for them to just look up the answer themselves.

It's an insult, basically. It's funny and rude.

Now, there's nothing wrong with a little rudeness in the right context. If an openly hostile person is wasting your time ...