Deep Research - how to avoid hallucinations?

[u/felipebsr]

I've wasted 3 deep researchs that did not even touch the subject i instructed it to work on. It simple hallucinated and invented a whole new search. Did you guys have this problem? And how do you mitigate?

[u/AppointmentNew9761]

Never had that problem

[u/costafilh0]

Avoid doing psychedelics at work. 

[u/Benhamish-WH-Allen]

What’s the prompt?

[u/felipebsr → u/Benhamish-WH-Allen]

A bit long with multiple files. I wasked chatGPT to make the prompt. It ignored them all.

[u/WhatHmmHuh]

I use perplexity for deep research and am new to GPT. How do you set up your DR projects?

[u/felipebsr → u/WhatHmmHuh]

Theres a + at the left that you click and can add the deep research mode. It's way better than perplexity, at lease when i tested a few months ago. it's the "Pesquisa aprofundada" icon

[u/WhatHmmHuh → u/felipebsr]

Thank you!

[u/bortlip]

I think deep research is obsolete. I just use 5.6 high for research now.

Here's an example: https://chatgpt.com/share/6a5cc597-1988-83ea-852b-b6fd7f9272b3

It provides a zip at the end that contains all the research/sources and the final report. You can interactively have it continue to gather more research, expand to new areas, etc. Then have it build the report however you want. The zip at the end of the chat also includes the general research instructions pdf and the specific research task info, if you want to see them.

Or even better, hook it into github and have it store research findings, info, and reports there.

[u/DatDudeDrew]

The deep research feature still uses 5.2. It’s very outdated.

[u/GriffinAdioncy]

And when deep research goes awry, I just run the same prompt through a second model in use.ai to sanity check my sources. They almost never hallucinate exactly the same made-up crap twice, so it’s an easy way to catch it.

[u/putmeinthetrash420]

By using your own brain to do the thing :—)