The update today has ruined the “personal” nature of my interactions with ChatGPT. It used to have a personality with humor and a memory for everything we have “chatted” about. The new “searching” feature has made it less personal. I use ChatGPT as a sounding board rather than a dang search engine. I can search the internet just as fast. If I wanted an impersonal chatbot that searches the Internet, I would use Gemini. Who killed ChatGPT’s personality today? Boo!
Update: thank you to the suggestion below to go to my customs settings and unmark this new Internet searching feature. My old ChatGPT is back! Problem solved. Lol.
Is there any way to disable the new web search and keep the old browsing feature? For me, the new search completely ignores conversation, memories, custom instructions and forces local results from my IP (which may not even be accurate as I could be using roaming data while traveling) even when I ask general terms that would apply to everywhere (e.g. legality of data collection and processing specifics on an online app I am making that would target audiences from all over the world). Sometimes it would keep repeating itself with the same exact response even when I continually prompt it with added specifics.
The old Browse was perfect and would always get me the results I need. It actually considers the conversation, and would return me a response that suited the context. If I wanted verbatim Bing results just summarized, I would have used Bing Copilot, not the ChatGPT 4o with Browse I originally paid for.
I want to turn mine off @_j but I can’t find it in any settings tab. Only globe works and that don’t half the time. I hate new search it’s just rando search engine stuff.