First ChatGPT can be wrong so don't automatically trust any answer it gives you. But secondly it is not doing research, it is only identifying answers from items that are already written and published. That is more reviewing research but not actually doing research.
The first thing I think of is that there are many colleagues at my institution and those at others may gain an unfair advantage over me and others who write and summarise my research without extra AI assistance.
ChatGPT in Academic Writing and Publishing: A Comprehensive Guide
Scientific writing is a difficult task that requires clarity, precision, and rigour. It also involves a large amount of research, analysis, and synthesis of information from various sources. However, scientific writing is also hard, time-consuming, and susceptible to errors. Advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models, such as ChatGPT, can simplify academic writing and publishing. ChatGPT has many applications and uses in academic and scientific writing and publishing such as hypothesis generation, literature review, safety recommendations, troubleshooting, tips, paraphrasing and summarising, editing, and proofreading, journal selection, journal style formatting, and other applications.
In this book chapter, we will discuss the main advantages, examples, and applications of ChatGPT in academic and scientific writing from research conception to publishing.