This is like asking "can you trust a wrench?" It's a tool. You can trust it to operate within its parameters. The problem is that most of us don't understand what those parameters are; it's a black box. So yeah, if you're gonna use it, use it for low stakes applications are prepare to exercise considerable oversight ... like a harbor freight table saw.

Trust and AI aren't two concepts that I would use positively in the same sentence. I have what might be considered a pathological dislike of AI.

I wish everyone EVERYONE would stop saying "ai". It is not in any way intelligence. These are large language models.

This is a bit long, but John Sayles says it right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot4z1UrPvZY