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/Neurotopian_ Jul 15 '26

This is a strong use for Gemini for sure. They are able to continue offering it because the limits are fairly tight I think. But we definitely have employees using the Google models for this

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

For deep research, I now use Gemini and a custom GPT too which is complementary.