User: 70% of Gemini's Answers for My Europe Trip Were Wrong or Outdated
TermAccomplished1868 · reddit · 2026-10-20
A Reddit user detailed Gemini's accuracy problems while planning a Europe trip: restaurant suggestions in wrong cities or permanently closed, consistently wrong train-station navigation tips, and event dates that were wrong or already past. The apology-heavy correction loop drove them to quit using it.
After the trip they kept testing (Leonardo AI, State Fair parking, future cruises, local restaurants) and estimate 70% of answers were wrong, outdated, or misleading. Worse, even after correcting Gemini with the right info, it regurgitates the same misinformation weeks or months later—like still recommending a restaurant that closed years ago.
The thread debates whether these expectations are reasonable, touching on retrieval freshness and grounding issues.
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