I have to disagree here.
If you listen to an audiobook, you still take in all the same info as you would reading the book yourself.
If you use AI to help you with a research paper you will always be offloading part of the task. Use it to gather your sources? You just offloaded the skills of looking for credible evidence to back up your claim. Use it to write the paper after doing the research yourself? You still offload the skill of crafting your arguments, word choice, persuasion, etc.
You are also taking a big risk assuming that the output of the clanker is correct as it usually doesn’t provide you sources to double check yourself.
Super cool! This reminded me of a hike I took in North Dakota with my family when I was about 12. I stepped on a prairie rattle snake, pretty sure it was a juvenile. I told my family about it but it had slithered off before anyone saw it and no one believed me. On the trip back to the car my mom about stepped on one in almost the same spot. Everyone saw it that time and we all watched it slither off a nearby cliff.