How do you conduct research in the AI age?

https://lemmy.ml/post/45819313

How do you conduct research in the AI age? - Lemmy

(Research as in finding info, not creating it) I feel like it’s so much harder to find the right places to get info from when so much of the web has been enshittified by AI blog grifts & sponsors these days. I do not want my only source to be a Wikipedia page - that sucks & I’m always left desiring more from it! (Not to mention more controversial aspects often go un- or barely mentioned for ‘impartiality’ reasons) Maybe it’s just a me problem & I’m not being analytical or probing enough as a lot of my former hyperfixs were fictional & facilitated partly through social media. I just really miss going down rabbitholes & failing that I’d like more empirical evidence for my perspectives as I think I’ve forgotten how I developed them in the first place

you can use ai but require that it gives you references for where it got its answers.
Then you have to check each of the references to verify that they’re real…
yes. and challenge it on the references. Its a great activity to unerstand how limited ai is. Curiously I just went through a reference think with gemini and its kinda funny the way it responds and recognizes the error and then repeats it.