There are applications where AI based tools can help though.

E.g. factchecking. Sure using them to query data directly isn't the best idea (same goes for search engines btw as these only provide potential sources not answers) however AI does a pretty good job at things like text and video summarization or audio/video transcribing. It doesn't mean one should use the resulting data directly but if you need to find some relevant research it might come in handy helping to browse through lots of materials and identify those potentially interesting so you can evaluate them yourself.

IMO "AI is God" and "AI is useless crap" are two equally radically unproductive approaches. It is just a tool which is suited for some things and not so much for others.