Microsoft Copilot vs Elicit: Which Is Better in 2026
Last month, I spent three hours helping a colleague dig up peer-reviewed sources for a grant proposal on protein misfolding. She had been using Microsoft Copilot for the heavy lifting, proudly showing me a neatly formatted Word document full of citations. It looked perfect—until we actually tried to look up three of the papers. They didn't exist. Copilot had fabricated the authors, the journals, and even the DOIs with total confidence.
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