I kind of enjoy them, like having a brick wall to bounce a tennis ball off of. Its often not even about its ostensible "intelligence"/pattern-matching or whatever, sometimes its helpful to have a "conversational" "partner" that helps you explore ideas or thoughts without fear of judgement and that applies that improv "Yes, and..." style of engaging—even if its sycophantic. Thats gonna have to be on the person to learn to "pushback" or develop appropriate criticality to help them self-immunize against the tools bias to validating you.

I'm gonna go ahead and make a controversial statement and say that some of us who have instinctually and existentially had it drilled into us that we're always wrong and there's little value to our input or accuracy to it can actually benefit from a little bit of fluffing or building up once in a while as long as there is a reasonable vigilant ongoing practice to challenge it constantly (where we feel confident or want to test different theories or orientations) and try to find our way to a more reasonable baseline of informeed or earned credulity towards our own abillities and cognitive abillities or at least interlocutory facillity