No more than? Id say it’s way more.
Group think is a passive acceptance of beliefs you have read/interacted with, without any desire to challenge those beliefs even if one feels they might not be accurate.
Using LLMs to answer basic questions is the active delegation of thinking to another entity. You’re delegating the entire task, and alleviating yourself of all thought.
It’s like comparing someone using multiplication tables to calculate a sum, Vs using a calculator; except in this instance, the calculator is only accurate 1/3 of the time.
“Just need to melt a few more ice caps and my LLM will have the solution to preventing the ice caps from melting!”