Research
Use a research tool to find sources, then open each one and confirm it says what the answer claims.
Tool types that fit: Research, General assistant
My question: [question]
Give a short answer, and for each claim name the source it comes from with a link.
Say which claims are well supported and which are uncertain or disputed.
Do not include a source you cannot link to.Asking AI to flag uncertainty does not make its answer correct. Keep checking the parts that matter.
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Consensus is an AI academic search engine that finds peer-reviewed papers and summarizes them with in-line citations; a beginner might try it to see what published studies say about a question.
Elicit is an AI research assistant that searches academic papers and produces cited reports, tables and systematic-review workflows; a beginner might try it to find and summarize papers on a research question.
Perplexity is an AI search engine that answers questions from real-time web results with numbered citations; a beginner might try it to look up a topic and then open the cited sources.
ChatGPT is OpenAI's chat assistant on the web, desktop and mobile; a beginner might try it for drafting text, asking questions with web search, or asking about an uploaded document or image.
Claude is Anthropic's AI assistant on the web, desktop and mobile; a beginner might try it for writing and editing text, asking about an uploaded PDF or image, or questions that need a web search.
DeepSeek is an AI chat assistant on the web and in iOS and Android apps; a beginner might try it for questions, writing help, or answers that use its web search function.
Gemini is Google's AI assistant on the web, desktop and mobile; a beginner might try it for everyday questions, summarising an uploaded document, or a Deep Research report built from Google Search results.