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OpenAI's Deep Research Cited Nothing, Users Flee to Gemini
Pro users exposed that ChatGPT's Deep Research was producing reports with zero citations or searches. As the outage persisted for days, researchers began switching to Gemini.
2026-10-03 ~ 2026-10-04 · 2 episodes · 4 posts
Episode 1 · ChatGPT Deep Research Caught Producing Zero-Citation Reports (2026-10-03, 2 posts)
Pro subscriber Jeremy Nguyen reports that ChatGPT's Deep Research repeatedly produced reports with zero citations and sometimes zero web searches, drawing complaints from paying users about the feature's reliability.
- ChatGPT Deep Research repeatedly returns reports with zero citations, Pro users report — JeremyNguyenPhD · 2026-10-03
- ChatGPT Pro's Deep Research caught returning 0 citations and 0 searches — JeremyNguyenPhD · 2026-10-03
Episode 2 · OpenAI Deep Research Returns Zero Citations for Days, Users Flee to Gemini (2026-10-04, 2 posts)
OpenAI's Deep Research has been returning zero citations for several consecutive days, prompting researchers like PMinervini to switch to Google's new Gemini Deep Research model instead.
- OpenAI Deep Research has been returning zero citations for days, user reports — JeremyNguyenPhD · 2026-10-04
- Researcher Says OpenAI Deep Research Returning Zero Citations, Now Uses New Gemini Model — PMinervini · 2026-10-04