“This is not a service we provide. It is not a service we have ever provided, nor a service we have any plans to provide. Indeed, it is a not a service we are technically capable of providing.”
ChatGPT tells people OpenCage’s geocoding API can find a phone’s location from its number, and hands them Python code to do it. Users sign up, make a handful of calls, fail, and file support tickets every day. OpenCage eats the cost of OpenAI’s confident fiction. Bad YouTube tutorials got them a few confused users. ChatGPT scaled the same mistake by several orders of magnitude.