Hallucinations aren’t as big of a concern to me as shallow or skewed readings, imo. Think of all the ways there are to misinterpret Hegel or Marx, and all the reddit comments and YouTube videos and Trotskyist and liberal articles that comprise the training data. I’d be careful asking information-seeking questions.

Some models can probably be useful to help you parse difficult passages, and talk through concepts if you learn better through dialog. Also can find secondary resources if you’re using one that can search the internet.

But as long as they’re only supplemental to actual theory and you don’t get overconfident in your early understanding (which is a problem regardless of LLM usage) I don’t think there’s much harm. No matter how you study you’re gonna have misunderstandings that become refined into understandings through the process of learning and discussion.