You are misrepresenting my statements. I said that you can learn from your friend, but that there is a difference between them feeding you answers, and you actually understanding the meaning behind those answers.
Using a calculator is cheating if you are learning arithmetic. Furthermore, this is the same old bad analogy that every AI pumper keeps making. A calculator takes input and gives predictable output. An LLM on the other hand takes input and just guesses at the most likely answer based on a huge pool of data. Completely different, I don't even know how you could begin to compare the two since a calculator is never wrong (unless it is programmed wrong or malfunctioning), whereas your LLM is frequently wrong. It doesn't apologize to you - it outputs words that look like an apology to humans that are too gullible to know the difference.