This is the problem with getting people to understand that ChatGPT can't actually think: a lot of people also don't actually think as a matter of habit.

The funny part is that they probably thought "Geez, why didn't they just copy paste this into an LLM detector?"

The most important part in all this is that, from what I can tell, LLM detectors are just complete scams.

I mean, tbh that sounds more like the person was passively aggressively telling you that you should have been able to figure it out yourself.

I feel fairly confident at detecting LLM output in the course of my work, but that doesn't mean that I should unilaterally make decisions based on my own opinion without asking other experts who are right there beside me at work. Is there something wrong with asking for a second opinion, when management has provided to us Slack channels to do exactly this?

This is also what it looks like when someone is avoiding being pinned down / responsible for a judgment or decision.

What was requested was personal "expert" judgment, what was received was the unendorsed output of a tool which no one can hold accountable.

I mean yeah, I can understand that, except that it was a team channel, and nobody needed to respond at all. So how in the world was I pinning anyone down? And why did a couple senior folks endorse that answer? Were they pinned down as a result?

You weren't trying to pin anyone down, but from the respondent's point of view, any response they endorse pins them down because it opens them up to being wrong and responsible (this depends on the culture at the company and the individual of course).

The conscientious people in the chat will have a hard time ignoring an unanswered query, so answering with the tool's output alone forms a sort of compromise.

This can potentially be defused by first stating what you think and asking for a second opinion, but of course, the easy out there is to simply endorse whatever is already on the table (maybe like your senior folks).

I was only suggesting that the situation could be more nuanced than a coworker implicitly suggesting "just google it for fuck's sake", but for all I know, it wasn't.