I have no problem using it, but in my opinion, and I believe for the majority of the community, this should be allowed only by clearly asking. As someone who lives in a very irrelevant place politically and economically, I don’t want information based on my location. Please set an option to choose whether or not to provide information based on location. I do want information only relevant to U.S. big cities, and I have no interest in knowing what a mayor in a very small town in the middle of nowhere is doing because of my IP location or having answers tailored to my location. I want information relevant to today’s world, the same as someone in a major city of a developed area.
THANKS.
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NOTE: I haven’t added any information related to my nearby area to the memory, except the state/province which cointain thousands of cities; the location details are based solely on IP tracking by OPENAI.
Please add an option, as X already has, to choose whether to find information based on location or not.
New web tool replaced to browser tool and it see IP location.
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Thanks, Polepole. In this case, I am kindly requesting that OpenAI provide an option to disable location-based information. The majority of users don’t live in highly innovative areas where location-based news is relevant to their careers or businesses. Offering more globally-oriented search results would benefit users living in rural areas or abroad.
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It’s way worse than the old browse tool, and even ignores locations specified in queries and prioritizes irrelevant, unwanted IP-based results, for example 4o with the new search tool:
GPT4 with the old Browse tool:
The same thing also happens in Temporary mode, so memory is not the issue here (I even have a memory “User is not in Singapore” and clearly the SearchGPT integration completely ignores that)
This is definitely reason enough to stop using gpt. I think it’s high time I started recommending new AIs to my followers.