ChatGPT has stopped searching and started guessing: car repair data is all made up
WeissMISFIT · reddit · 2026-09-18
A Reddit user reports that ChatGPT used to actively search the web when helping troubleshoot car maintenance and upgrades, but over the past few days it has been fabricating nearly everything — torque specs, bolt sizes, weights — unless explicitly prompted to search. The user calls the model 'useless' without forced search and asks whether others are seeing the same regression.
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