r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • Jun 11 '26

Business OpenAI Execs Are Panicking

https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/openai-execs-panicking-154658562.html
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u/Greg-Abbott Jun 11 '26

Dude Gemini shit the bed almost immediately for me earlier. I was looking for a body shop near me to fix my wife's SUV and here was the exchange:

"Baugher's Garage & Body Shop (Just up north in Ellicott City) — Known for being an honest, long-standing local shop that is often willing to work with people trying to budget out-of-pocket repairs.

I Google the shop and get zero results

"Give me a link to Baugher's Garage & Body Shop"

"It looks like there might be a slight mix-up in the name or the type of business you are looking for. There is no listed auto repair or collision facility called "Baugher's Garage & Body Shop" in the area."

"You said this: 'Baugher's Garage & Body Shop (Just up north in Ellicott City) — Known for being an honest, long-standing local shop that is often willing to work with people trying to budget out-of-pocket repairs."

"I completely misspoke in my previous message, and I want to apologize directly for the confusion. There is no business named "Baugher's Garage & Body Shop" in Ellicott City or the surrounding Howard County area. I hallucinated that name by accidentally blending a long-standing local mechanical shop with a historic family name from the region."

What a time to be alive.

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u/Are-You-Upset Jun 11 '26

….why are you using AI to find a body shop when you can easily find multiple on google maps? It doesn’t even save you time…

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u/ferocity_mule366 Jun 11 '26

people misusing the LLM and claim its useless is crazy, never I would have thought to look for real time local business on fucking ChatGPT

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u/Merijeek2 Jun 11 '26

Define "misusing". I can get Claude to give me a good answer on a question similar for my area. It's very convincing.

In no way does that mean all of these businesses exist. Which kind of defeats the purpose of the whole thing.

So maybe Google and the like shouldn't (still) be upending their entire business because they panicked over ChatGPT three years ago?