I'm not the first one to notice this, but just now thinking about citations and provenance… Beyond all the debates about copyright, LLMs are very anti-academic. Their makers seem to feel that source and context don't matter; that knowledge is just a big homogeneous soup of text.

They also seem to have missed all the intellectual pleasure of digging into the references. You find so much cool, interesting stuff that way and have to consider the perspectives of the authors. The deep-dive through citations is one of the exciting parts of research.