I actually use LLMs to help me dig up the sources. It's quicker than google and you get them nicely formatted besides.

But: Just because it's easy doesn't mean you're allowed to be lazy. You need to check all the sources, not just the ones that happen to agree with your view. Sometimes the ones that disagree are more interesting! And at least you can have a bit of drama yelling at your screen at how dumb they obviously are. Formulating why they are dumb, now there's the challenge - and the intellectual honesty.

But yeah, using LLMs to help with actually doing the research? Totally a thing.