Pros and Cons of Using AI for Literature Searching: SciSpace

SciSpace

SciSpace has free and paid plans. The free plan answers searches with a summary that cites five papers. Other references are displayed below the answer. Additional AI tools are available in the paid plans, such as chatting with PDFs, an AI detector, citation export, notebooks, Deep Review, etc. Searches Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, and web crawlers of repositories.

Pros

Nice combination of features in paid plan
Deep Review is an interesting feature for thorough searches and summaries, although results have to be checked and critically appraised.
Good help features

Cons

Some hallucinations and errors, such as attributing information to a source that is not in that source
Citation export can leave out some information.