This sounds like you're chastising me for something totally distinct from what I was supporting the request for clarity on.
I'm not asking or advocating for using AI as a copy editor.
The post I replied to asked about using Gemini as if it's Wikipedia - that is, saying "according to Gemini" when citing a fact where one might have once wrote "according to Wikipedia" or even "according to Google."
This is a forum people hang out in part-time. It's nobody's job to go spend an hour researching primary sources to post a comment. Shallow searches and citations are common and often helpful in pointing someone in the right direction. As AI becomes commonplace, a lot of that is being done with AI.
"Can I have AI write a reply for me?"
is a very different question than
"Can I cite an AI search result?"
This rule change is clear about the former. There's room to clarify the latter.