Hmm interesting. I agree with you 100%. It is funny because I made this as an aside for another project I'm working on, paperzilla.ai, which I made exactly to solve this problem: people claiming stuff by pointing at a paper (while not providing it). Citation Needed was tech-driven: when I found out I could find a paper backing up a snippet of text, I thought that was pretty cool. But you are right, it can be used to back up any claim. Thanks for your response!
That's really cool - you should merge the two sites!
I did feel a certain degree of trepidation commenting what I did because I didn't want to (and hate that armchair devs on this site) just hate on the product or expect you to have considered the global implications of a side project, so I'm glad it's an issue you're thinking about too! LMK if you've got something else to try out!
Your comment was not in the category of an armchair dev/hater, otherwise I wouldn't have replied :)
I'm working on a "pivot" of paperzilla, which is paper discovery. Basically you subscribe to a research topic and you get a daily list of possible interesting papers for you in summarized form. If you are a scientist or following new science, please let me know. I'd love to hear what your daily ritual is for finding new papers and what tools you use (if any). You can reach me at mark at paperzilla dot ai.
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Hmm interesting. I agree with you 100%. It is funny because I made this as an aside for another project I'm working on, paperzilla.ai, which I made exactly to solve this problem: people claiming stuff by pointing at a paper (while not providing it). Citation Needed was tech-driven: when I found out I could find a paper backing up a snippet of text, I thought that was pretty cool. But you are right, it can be used to back up any claim. Thanks for your response!
That's really cool - you should merge the two sites!
I did feel a certain degree of trepidation commenting what I did because I didn't want to (and hate that armchair devs on this site) just hate on the product or expect you to have considered the global implications of a side project, so I'm glad it's an issue you're thinking about too! LMK if you've got something else to try out!
Your comment was not in the category of an armchair dev/hater, otherwise I wouldn't have replied :)
I'm working on a "pivot" of paperzilla, which is paper discovery. Basically you subscribe to a research topic and you get a daily list of possible interesting papers for you in summarized form. If you are a scientist or following new science, please let me know. I'd love to hear what your daily ritual is for finding new papers and what tools you use (if any). You can reach me at mark at paperzilla dot ai.