Sci-Hub has created a new AI chatbot. Is it any good?

https://cen.acs.org/policy/publishing/Sci-Hub-created-new-AI/104/web/2026/04

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Solumbran@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 117d (3 replies)

No.

General_Effort@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 117d (2 replies)

How so?

PixeIOrange@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 117d (1 reply)

Its AI

General_Effort@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 117d

Is this about copyright?

iceberg314@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 117d (3 replies)

The idea is cool, but yeah I tried it and it was super slow. Maybe it could be useful as like a more semantic search engine than a chat bot

General_Effort@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 116d (2 replies)

Or, maybe hear me out, maybe it should be legal to provide this. A bit of funding would fix that.

iceberg314@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 116d (1 reply)

Don't get me wrong, I love sci-hub. But the Sci-bot tools was super slow like took half an hour for a single repsonse , maybe they just need a bigger datacenter or smaller models

General_Effort@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 116d

they just need a bigger datacenter

It would work smoothly if it was legal (see Google Scholar Labs).

This is a major reason why I absolutely despise copyright people.