You never read something on a paper and had no clue how to even start to get it?

I talked about snippets of papers to work collueges. Chatgpt can do the same thing.

And why wouldn't it? It's only here to help me to find something I can use for further understanding/googling.

For a serious answer, my biggest reservation with using ChatGPT to explain concepts I know very little about is that ChatGPT often just makes up fake information, or very confidently explains things wrong.

Having to fact-check every thing it says feels a bit exhausting.

A bit like talking to a version of Albert Einstein with dementia or alzheimers, who can still say really intelligent things but mixes in subtle bullshit.

Well the alternative is scouring Google for answers and fact-checking them too - ChatGPT cuts out the scouring process