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> GPT-5 is proving useful as a literature review assistant > No, it does not. > It is excellent when just finding something is enough.

• Timsky 1y ago
  I meant that it obviously fits your needs but not mine
  • signatoremo 1y ago
    > No, it does not. It only produces a highly convincing counterfeit. How could you say that with high confidence when you admitted it might be useful for others?
    • Timsky 1y ago
      Because this is precisely what the word counterfeit means, an imitation that deceives you. The functionality of counterfeit can be from 0% to 100%, depending on your luck. If you accidentally bought a fake iPhone, it can still make calls. Chat output is something that looks like a literature review, some collection of summaries of relevant papers. But the problem is that a review is not just text compression. It is also about rejecting low-quality research, considering the historical context, identifying contradictions, etc. No machine can do that analysis for you, yet. I have quite a confidence in that.