No, I don't think it is dishonest.

At the same time I would recommend, document your methodology explicitly in the dissertation, describe the verification pipeline, and make it clear what you reviewed manually versus what was automated. That transparency converts "dishonest?" into "methodologically rigorous."

Here is the thing, academic policy is NOT really about honesty. It is about trust. Universities cannot distinguish your workflow from someone who prompted GPT to write their lit review wholesale.

More than the ethical distinction, I believe the rule around AI usage is blunt because enforcement is pretty hard.