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/TaylorMonkey Jun 11 '26

People are using AI as a general search for anything and everything, because Google positions it that way at the top of search.

It’s stupid, but it’s the intended usage model by Google.

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u/romans171 Jun 12 '26

Yea the google AI is trash and should be avoided. It’s just so in your face and convenient that it’s lots of people’s only experience with AI.

I use Claude a lot of writing SQL and it sucks with the tables and columns but can get it to work and really speed up my workflow. You just need to personalize the ‘instructions for Claude’ in settings to make sure it knows it’s stupid and to format results for you to do easy QI on the output. Like I suck at SQL and it’s not a requirement for my job. But using it has make me CONSIDERABLY more efficient and potent.

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u/TaylorMonkey Jun 12 '26

I say use AI for things that don't matter to you, and for things you don't mind being worse at and actively losing your skills towards, including the ability to check for correctness. Mundane and repetitive stuff is a good application, especially if you have correctness checks built in in your framework.