It’s for the transition period. Before chatgpt becomes the new default search engine system they need to put their chats into the old search engines. Like how it’s easier to search Google with “site: reddit.com” to find answers than actually using the broad search.
The trick is reading checkboxes before pressing them.
I don’t know what people expected the option
to do.
I also don’t know why it would have been implemented in the first place, but at least it was very clear.
It’s for the transition period. Before chatgpt becomes the new default search engine system they need to put their chats into the old search engines. Like how it’s easier to search Google with “site: reddit.com” to find answers than actually using the broad search.
Here’s a crazy idea, this checkbox was vibe coded in the ChatGPT’s frontend.