I think we’ve hit the point where finding actual research papers or technical docs is just impossible. Google is pure SEO spam and AI slop. Adding “reddit” to searches? Useless now - half the threads are deleted, the other half are bot accounts copy-pasting garbage. ChatGPT just makes up citations with fake DOIs. Perplexity seemed promising until you realize it’s $20/month and still hallucinates half the time. Like what am I even paying for. Someone in a Discord mentioned some tool called scira and at $10/month it’s at least not bleeding me dry compared to everything else out there. Tried it and it was… actually usable? Like it linked to real sources instead of making them up. Still not 100% sure about it but for that price I’ll probably keep it around for a bit. Is everyone else just juggling multiple expensive subscriptions now just to find basic information? Feels like being nickel and dimed just to use the internet properly in 2026. submitted by /u/AzoxWasTaken
Originally posted by u/AzoxWasTaken on r/ArtificialInteligence