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 Brave's Leo has managed to go from bad to worthless garbage.

It used to provide me with a list of titles for academic papers related to a particular subject. A list of titles, not the actual paper. I understood why it didn't just give entire papers, but it was a fast way of figuring out specific papers to go locate (sometimes). 

Now it just cites copyright and gives me a list of popular websites to search on my own. Fucking great, but that makes the AI completely useless. I was always free to go to individual publishers to search their websites, but that takes a lot more time. 

Giving me the names of papers and authors isn't a violation of copyright anymore than suggesting a list of movies would be.

Who the fuck is steering the ship with these things and what makes them think it's worth paying for?