The sheer fact that high-quality, modern language model capabilities are available through free ChatGPT access is frankly disruptive, I initially treated it as a novelty, something to check when my primary tool was down, but now it’s become my default for initial research dives, especially when I need to quickly cross-reference different viewpoints on a technical subject, I tasked it with explaining a recently published scientific paper in layman’s terms and the resulting explanation was both accurate and remarkably clear