this post was submitted on 08 Jun 2026
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This is going to get a lot of downvotes, but I stand by it. The only good thing about AI is getting the sources. It will find you obscure links and teach you how to find it yourself. I think it's the only guilt-free way to use it as well.
I've gotten enough bad citations from AI to know that's not a great course to chart.
I've gotten entirely irrelevant sources where it makes the vaguest connection to the prompt
If you treat it like Wikpedia, where you check the sources and make it give you a direct link, I have found it to be great. It has found sources I never would have found through a search engine.
I'm sure that's true now , but search engines used to be so much better.
The search engine can only find things that exist.
The AI can find things that don't.
What you just said makes no sense man. Use Wikipedia or a good search engine.
Dont try to make slop bots do what you want when there are far better ways that we have had for decades. I'm sorry but this is why i get upset at this. People have lost all tech literacy and now think the only way to do anything is via slopbot.
If you need to sort through billions of lines of data, maybe then a supercomputer with fancy autocorrect would be a good tool.
That is ... when it didn't just completely hallucinate the sources.
There are always a lot of "ai would be good for ____ if _____". And this is the con. Nothing against you personally here but...
It'd be good if it wasnt owned by trillionaires
It'd be good if it didnt destroy earth and take up all our land
It'd be good if it gave accurate info
It'd be good if it wasnt massive theft of human creation that will never be paid back but instead sold to us in a subscription model
It'd be good if it didnt cause all computing costs to skyrocket therefore limiting the normal persons ability to compute (which is the long term plan of the slopbot overlords)
It'd be good if the end goal wasnt the surveillance state and full-on fascism
Etc..
Yeah, get it to find sources and 1/2 of them don’t exist, but the other half are average to high quality so you can use them to put together a paper.
Of course the problem is that people get lazy and don’t actually look up the sources.
I think this is probably the most true. You do have to weed through it, like I said, like Wikipedia.
Search engines used to be excellent for getting the sources. AI citing sources is worse than search engines used to be.