"The whole point of hiring a researcher is that you can rely on their research, that they're doing work for you that would otherwise take you hours. Deep Research is the AI slop of academia — low-quality research-slop built for people that don't really care about quality or substance, and it’s not immediately obvious who it’s for.
Surely, if you’re engaged enough to spend $200 on an OpenAI subscription and are aware of Deep Research, you probably know what SEO bait is, and can distinguish between low-quality and high-quality content. If you were presented with a document with such low-quality, repetitive citations, you’d shred it — and, if created by an intern, you’d shred them too. Or, at the very least, give them some stern words of guidance.
Let me put this in very blunt terms: we are more than two years into the generative AI boom and OpenAI's biggest, sexiest products are Deep Research — a product that dares to ask "what if you were able to spend a lot of compute to get a poorly-cited research paper," and Operator, a compute-intensive application that rarely completes a task in minutes that would otherwise have taken you seconds."
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