Wikipedia has citations. Check out the links at the bottom as well as inline citations.

The pace at replacing books at libraries is so painfully slow you stand a good chance to find an environment that's nearly free of LLM influence at your local one.

If your talking about true research, has AI actually changed much yet. Go to a research library and use their professional search tools and people. Then read.

I use DuckDuckGo. And I have a good example: I asked it what the birthdays of the KPop Demon Hunters girls are. (I have an "anime birthdays" calendar on my computer. It's cool to see who has a birthday, even if it doesn't really mean much. And I wanted to add the HUNTR/X girls (and maybe Jinu). Duck.ai happily told me that while the girls' birthdays are not widely known, it still generated a table. It listed a fan site and Wikipedia as its sources. Neither had birthdays listed for the girls.

I then found a fandom site (I know, they suck, they're like the crotch of wikis, or at least the armpit). They listed two of the girls' birthdays, and their source was an Instagram post by the official social media team. So as far as fictional characters' birthdays go, that's good enough for me. I added Rumi and Mira to my calendar. They have nothing for Zoey (ostensibly, her birthday hasn't come around since the movie came out, which means it's coming up soon) or Jinu (same, or they don't care about his).

Zeroth rule, optional: Use an AI that is private and won't use your query to train itself (these are going to be not as good because of the hindrance).

First rule: Use an AI that cites its sources.

Second rule: Check its sources. If for whatever reason you must use an AI that does not list sources, you can either ask it its sources, or you can fact check them manually (as I ended up doing).

Honestly it's the same as Wikipedia, check the source. AI can be fooled. Wikipedia can be vandalised.

I don't think searching for information has changed all that much with the advent of AI. SEO has been shitting up webpages for much longer than AI Has been on the scene.

I have switched from Google to Kagi. I also confront what I have just ready with what I already knows and when something is wrong, I dig deeper. As somebody mentioned earlier, go along the citations string.

Truthfully, I just research the ol’ fashioned way in conjunction with asking AI questions. Google AI is great because it provides its sources with its responses. AI is a tool just like any search engine is, the truth lies somewhere in there but you need to sort of turn every stone.

you can use ai but require that it gives you references for where it got its answers.