Comment by greazy

I don't agree with both of the above analogies. Sometimes you must go in depth on a single paper, while other times it's broad research that's required. Different tools and methods for different tasks.

What your describing here

> reading the portions of those papers that you are interested in

Is a hybrid use of the technology which no one would argue against.

The question remains if students have the foresight to use the correct method and which results in the best learning outcomes.

For myself, I would have absolutely let LLMs summarise swaths of text and write my essays when I was at Uni. That's just me though. Maybe today's learners are better than I.