Google Removals Journey

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punter99	punter99 Posted 9 Months Ago #34653
Supreme Being Group: Forum Members Posts: 775, Visits: 5.8K	+x khafka - 13 Mar 24 6:34 PM +x Mr W - 13 Mar 24 5:02 PM We may have a very interesting 21st Century problem. Could 'ChatGPT Effect' become the new 'Google Effect'? ChatGPT - https://chat.openai.com/chat Khafka, you might be a good test subject. (Or anyone who is still Google-able now to see if it is the case.) I've just ChatGPT'd my name and it's come up with a response and linking to newspapers. Now that you've been successful in De-Googling, if you ChatGPT yourself, so to speak, do you still come up? Everyone else, do you come up in results? If you type: 'Who is NAME from LOCATION' You can allow it web access (button at the bottom). This could then also be the case with each of the ChatGPT-type models, especially if people move away from Googling, such as Elon Musk's Grok and Google's Gemini. I gave it a wee go although I couldn't seem to see the web access button at the bottom so this might not be accurate. I tried two variations and got nothing back for either. When I tried to be a bit more specific and initially just added 'sex' at the end it freaked out and said they're not allowed to do stuff like that - So changed it to 'sex offender' and it doesn't really give much. It scrapes the net, but only from a fixed point in the past, so presumably if a conviction were still Googleable in Jan 2022, then it would show up, even if the details were removed from Google searches after 2022. 49
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khafka	khafka Posted 9 Months Ago #34654
Supreme Being Group: Forum Members Posts: 328, Visits: 18K	+x punter99 - 14 Mar 24 11:49 AM +x khafka - 13 Mar 24 6:34 PM +x Mr W - 13 Mar 24 5:02 PM We may have a very interesting 21st Century problem. Could 'ChatGPT Effect' become the new 'Google Effect'? ChatGPT - https://chat.openai.com/chat Khafka, you might be a good test subject. (Or anyone who is still Google-able now to see if it is the case.) I've just ChatGPT'd my name and it's come up with a response and linking to newspapers. Now that you've been successful in De-Googling, if you ChatGPT yourself, so to speak, do you still come up? Everyone else, do you come up in results? If you type: 'Who is NAME from LOCATION' You can allow it web access (button at the bottom). This could then also be the case with each of the ChatGPT-type models, especially if people move away from Googling, such as Elon Musk's Grok and Google's Gemini. I gave it a wee go although I couldn't seem to see the web access button at the bottom so this might not be accurate. I tried two variations and got nothing back for either. When I tried to be a bit more specific and initially just added 'sex' at the end it freaked out and said they're not allowed to do stuff like that - So changed it to 'sex offender' and it doesn't really give much. It scrapes the net, but only from a fixed point in the past, so presumably if a conviction were still Googleable in Jan 2022, then it would show up, even if the details were removed from Google searches after 2022. Ah okay, cool. Well there's the outcome for me anyway. I'm more than happy to try these wee experiments in the hopes that they can hopefully help or inform people. 47
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Mr W	Mr W Posted 9 Months Ago #34655
Supreme Being Group: Forum Members Posts: 467, Visits: 5.6K	+x punter99 - 14 Mar 24 11:49 AM +x khafka - 13 Mar 24 6:34 PM +x Mr W - 13 Mar 24 5:02 PM We may have a very interesting 21st Century problem. Could 'ChatGPT Effect' become the new 'Google Effect'? ChatGPT - https://chat.openai.com/chat Khafka, you might be a good test subject. (Or anyone who is still Google-able now to see if it is the case.) I've just ChatGPT'd my name and it's come up with a response and linking to newspapers. Now that you've been successful in De-Googling, if you ChatGPT yourself, so to speak, do you still come up? Everyone else, do you come up in results? If you type: 'Who is NAME from LOCATION' You can allow it web access (button at the bottom). This could then also be the case with each of the ChatGPT-type models, especially if people move away from Googling, such as Elon Musk's Grok and Google's Gemini. I gave it a wee go although I couldn't seem to see the web access button at the bottom so this might not be accurate. I tried two variations and got nothing back for either. When I tried to be a bit more specific and initially just added 'sex' at the end it freaked out and said they're not allowed to do stuff like that - So changed it to 'sex offender' and it doesn't really give much. It scrapes the net, but only from a fixed point in the past, so presumably if a conviction were still Googleable in Jan 2022, then it would show up, even if the details were removed from Google searches after 2022. That's why the "web access" option is interesting because it does have access to the live internet. To test, I just asked it about a share price in Feb 2024 and it was correct. ===== Fighting or Accepting - its difficult to know which is right and when. 46
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Mr W	Mr W Posted 9 Months Ago #34656
Supreme Being Group: Forum Members Posts: 467, Visits: 5.6K	+x khafka - 14 Mar 24 12:48 PM +x punter99 - 14 Mar 24 11:49 AM +x khafka - 13 Mar 24 6:34 PM +x Mr W - 13 Mar 24 5:02 PM We may have a very interesting 21st Century problem. Could 'ChatGPT Effect' become the new 'Google Effect'? ChatGPT - https://chat.openai.com/chat Khafka, you might be a good test subject. (Or anyone who is still Google-able now to see if it is the case.) I've just ChatGPT'd my name and it's come up with a response and linking to newspapers. Now that you've been successful in De-Googling, if you ChatGPT yourself, so to speak, do you still come up? Everyone else, do you come up in results? If you type: 'Who is NAME from LOCATION' You can allow it web access (button at the bottom). This could then also be the case with each of the ChatGPT-type models, especially if people move away from Googling, such as Elon Musk's Grok and Google's Gemini. I gave it a wee go although I couldn't seem to see the web access button at the bottom so this might not be accurate. I tried two variations and got nothing back for either. When I tried to be a bit more specific and initially just added 'sex' at the end it freaked out and said they're not allowed to do stuff like that - So changed it to 'sex offender' and it doesn't really give much. It scrapes the net, but only from a fixed point in the past, so presumably if a conviction were still Googleable in Jan 2022, then it would show up, even if the details were removed from Google searches after 2022. Ah okay, cool. Well there's the outcome for me anyway. I'm more than happy to try these wee experiments in the hopes that they can hopefully help or inform people. Thanks for doing this. It'll be interesting to know how many it does affect, because I wonder if this affects the 'right to be forgotten'. ===== Fighting or Accepting - its difficult to know which is right and when. Edited 9 Months Ago by Mr W 49
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