What's your opinion on this topic (Please keep this discussion civil and polite)?

Hey, I would like to hear your guys' opinions on this subject of how I currently do research. When I start doing my research I usually use AI tools like ChatGPT to help with search terms to then create Boolean search strings, Research Rabbit to help create research maps of the current field and to help find relevant articles, Consensus to help find papers I otherwise would have missed, and Google Scholar Labs sometimes to help find papers within Google Scholar that I might have missed with all of these other AI assistants. I have found this to be helpful, as well as using AI to help create emails for researchers that I then modify and personalize in my own voice. I never trust the AI's output for anything unless I have verified the information from the original source, which is usually a scientific study or review.

I have found this to be very successful and has helped me immensely with my research workflows, but I have heard counterpoints, such as:

- The traditional research workflow is better because of taking more time to complete research papers, has more serendipitous occurrences, and is the way research has been done for centuries before my time.

- People would rather talk to people, such as librarians, rather than using an AI bot to help them with starting search terms and sample search strings to build off of to find research papers.

- People do not fully understand what AI really is, and are saying that people should use their brains, as some of them don't fully understand that it requires a lot of trial-and-error and strategic and critical thinking to use the AI properly and ethically.

- People who are outright against AI and use the most vulgar language to describe either me and/or AI simply because I decided to use the buzzword in my post.

I wanted to post this in this subreddit to see the people who are for AI's viewpoints on the matter and how they see AI's role in conducting research in the future, as AI will become an ever-present force within the medical and veterinary fields, which I am researching. I hope you all remain civil and polite in the comments, and I will share more information about me, my workflows, and opinions in the comments.

Note: most of my personal experiences for these counterpoints are from academic subreddits and communities, so I wanted to hear from a broader body of people on their opinions about this topic matter.