I'll consider using them if they can save me time, but some of the search stuff they do is just wrong. I am not into them for 'creating' content. Humans do that better. I've not really used them for coding yet, but we have something at work for that as we are not allowed to put any company info into public services. The next generation of programmers will have a different life to me as I near retirement.
I keep trying things out because in my day job I'm expected to have answers. But as I say in the post, I'm highly skeptical most of the time and I don't like the industrial strength plagiarism either as a creator or as a consumer.
That said, even though up to age 16 I wanted to be a professional illustrator, I did use gen ai for the fantasy character art in my story so I'm not innocent either.