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title: What to Do When AI Brand Visibility Tools Show Wrong Facts About You
description: "What to do when AI brand visibility tools show wrong prices, hours, or services in AI answers: trace the source, fix it in order, report it, and recheck."
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# What to Do When AI Brand Visibility Tools Show Wrong Facts About You

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Kelly Kranz

Oct 26, 2026

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When AI brand visibility tools show wrong facts about you, find the source the AI is repeating before you do anything else. In many cases it's an old page, an outdated listing, or another site's description of you. Correct it on your own site first, then on the listings and profiles the AI pulls from, report the answer to the assistant, and recheck in a few weeks. Reporting alone leaves the bad source in place, so the same answer can come back.

**TL;DR**

- Wrong answers often trace back to a page or listing you can find.
- Fix your site, then listings, then other sites, in that order.
- Report the answer too, but expect weeks, not days.

## Why does AI get facts about your business wrong?

Because it repeats what it finds, and some of what it finds is old or wrong. OpenAI says plainly that ChatGPT [can produce incorrect or misleading outputs](https://help.openai.com/en/articles/8313428), and that its models are trained on data up to a certain point. Google's help page for AI Overviews says they [can and will make mistakes](https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/14901683).

Small businesses take more of the hit. Search Engine Journal, citing CMOTech, reported a test of 165 London businesses in which [93% of these businesses had at least one basic fact that was wrong or missing](https://www.searchenginejournal.com/ai-answers-about-your-locations-are-often-wrong-check-before-customers-do/582205/), and half of the smaller businesses received at least one false fact, compared with 32% of larger companies. It's one test in one city, but the pattern is easy to check for yourself.

## How do you find the source the AI is repeating?

Start with the answer itself. Ask the question that produced the wrong fact, then open every cited link. Often the wrong price, the old address, or the discontinued service is sitting on one of them.

If nothing is cited, search for the wrong fact directly. Put the old price or the old address in quotes and see where it still appears: a forgotten landing page, a PDF price list, a directory you set up years ago, a supplier's page that still describes a service you dropped.

| Wrong fact | Where to look first |
| --- | --- |
| Old prices | Old pages and PDFs on your own site, past promotions, third-party quote sites |
| Wrong hours or address | Google Business Profile, Bing Places, Yelp, industry directories |
| Services you don't offer | Old service pages, directory categories, other sites' descriptions of you |
| "Permanently closed" | Your listing status, and businesses with a similar name in another area |

## What should you fix first?

1. **Your own site.** Update or remove the page carrying the wrong fact. If it's gone, redirect it to the current page so the old version stops being found. Then ask Google to recrawl it.
2. **Your Google Business Profile.** Google says [edits usually take up to 10 minutes to review, but sometimes it can take up to 30 days](https://support.google.com/business/answer/3038311?hl=en).
3. **Other listings.** Bing Places, Yelp, and the directories in your industry. Make the name, address, phone, hours, and service categories match your site exactly.
4. **Other sites.** Email the publisher of an old article or directory entry with the correct details and ask for an update. Some will, some won't.

Then write the correct facts down in one place: your services, prices or price ranges, hours, areas, and how to book. Next time something changes, update every place on the same day.

## Should you report the wrong answer to Google or ChatGPT?

Yes, but don't count on it as the fix. In Google, use the thumbs down under the AI Overview, choose [Report a problem](https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/14901683), pick the category, and add details. In ChatGPT, you can give a thumbs down under the response. OpenAI's reporting options, described in its [help article on reporting content](https://help.openai.com/en/articles/10245791), focus on safety and legal concerns rather than wrong business details, so the source fixes above matter more.

## What if the wrong fact comes from a review or a news story?

You can't edit those, but you can answer them. Reply to the review with the correct, current details, politely and briefly, so anyone reading it, person or machine, sees both. For an old article, ask the publisher for a correction or an update note. Then make sure your own pages state the current fact clearly enough that the assistant has a newer, plainer source to prefer.

## How long until the AI answer changes?

Expect weeks. Google says [crawling can take anywhere from a few days to a few weeks](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/ask-google-to-recrawl), and that requesting a recrawl multiple times won't speed it up. The assistants then have to pick up the corrected page the next time they answer the question.

Recheck the same question two or three weeks after your fixes, on two or three different days. If the wrong fact is still there, look at the citations again: there may be one more source you haven't found yet. For what speeds AI visibility up more generally, see [how long AI visibility takes to build](https://ai-marketinglabs.com/lab-experiments/how-long-ai-visibility-takes-to-build-and-what-speeds-it-up).

## How do you keep it from happening again?

Check your key facts in the main assistants once a quarter, using the same questions each time, and keep your own pages the clearest, most current description of your business. When your site states your services, prices, hours, and areas plainly, the AI has a better source to repeat. AI Marketing Labs' AIO System is built for that job. If the wrong fact is about where you work, [showing up in AI search across your service area](https://ai-marketinglabs.com/lab-experiments/how-to-appear-in-ai-search-results-for-searches-in-your-service-area) covers listings by town.

## Frequently asked questions

Can I make ChatGPT delete wrong information about my business?

Not directly. You can give feedback on a response, but the reliable fix is correcting the pages and listings it draws from, so the next answer has better sources.

What if the wrong fact comes from a business with a similar name?

Make your name, address, and service area unmistakable on your site and listings, and report the answer in Google so the mix-up is on record. Then recheck after a few weeks.

Do AI brand visibility tools fix wrong facts for you?

Most show you what the assistants are saying and which sources they cite. The fixing still happens on your site, your listings, and the other sites that describe you.

 

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