I have come across a lot of people shouting about not using Chat GPT to research, I firmly disagree. The problem is actually that people don’t go through a thorough research process that involves checking sources, checking multiple sources and checking that sources are reliable.
The need to do proper research is the same as it has ever been no matter the tools you use, where some people are going wrong is using Chat GPT but also Google’s AI Overviews, Perplexity and any Gen AI based tool not as Research Engines but using them as Answer Engines and not questioning the answers or checkng / asking for sources.