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everyone keeps confusing "AI research agent" with ChatGPT for papers

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Every time someone says "just use ChatGPT for your lit review" I lose a year off my lifespan. A summary is not research. A summary is what you do when you already know what you're looking for. Research is the opposite, you're staring at 200 papers across 4 subfields trying to figure out where the g…

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  1. 2026-08-22 08:35 · r/AI_Agents
    everyone keeps confusing "AI research agent" with ChatGPT for papers

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