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Last year, I wrote about how Google Scholar was one of the few remaining instances where search works.

It is not perfect. But it works especially if you know the specific keyword that you are up to.

Google included AI on Google Scholar, which as they claim will

"analyzes [sic] your question to identify key topics, aspects and relationships, then searches all of them on Scholar"

So in simpler terms, you are expected to type your research question/s and it will come back to you with papers relevant to your work.

Sounds good? Sure, if youre only looking for papers to back up your Dunning Kruger.

But that is NOT how research works. I cant remember how many back and forth I have had with my research arguments because I found a strong counterargument. That is what makes research research.

You are not just living in your vivid hallucinations that your premise is gospel from the beginning. You are researching to PROVE, DISPROVE (quanti) or EXPLAIN (quali).

Out of curiosity, I tried it: