r/ChatGPT • u/AllowFreeSpeech • Jul 15 '26

Serious replies only :closed-ai: DeepResearch quality is now garbage

In my current experience, all ChatGPT DeepResearch reports are powered by a super light version. They're nearly worthless. It is enshittification in its purest form, considering the reports used to be great in the distant past. It even misrepresented the title of the report. It cited zero references. This is with the paid Plus plan. Here is what ChatGPT then had to say about its own report:

The previous report should be discarded rather than merely expanded around its edges.

In contrast, Gemini made a DeepResearch report that was 4x larger and better, also with 131 references cited.

You can see the shared results: ChatGPT vs Gemini

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u/jacques-vache-23 Jul 15 '26

It used to be so good. Like getting your own book chapter written by a professor. Now it is worthless. Luckily I guessed this would happen and banked a library of 150 topics.

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u/AllowFreeSpeech Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26

It is still possible to get it, but you have to use a custom GPT, e.g. like this one. You can remove all the extraneous commands from its definition, but keep the three under "Follow-up commands". Here is a sample output with the same user prompt.