The largest illegal database of scientific papers has gaps in recently published literature, but its chatbot can still prove useful, especially for less-timely questions.
Sci-Hub, a pirate website that illegally hosts tens of millions of scientific papers, has launched an artificial intelligence–based chatbot that mines the database and answers questions based on what it retrieves. Read what three scientists say about Sci-bot – built on Sci-Hub: https://cen.acs.org/policy/publishing/Sci-Hub-created-new-AI/104/web/2026/04