When running a query with ChatGPT with search enabled, can I restrict the search to only certain domain(s)?

The answer appears to be no, because in order to do so, there would have to be a system in place to filter both the training material and the set of web pages that an auxiliary search is limited to, and this system would have to be available for configuration to the end user. This isn't the case. However, a seemingly sufficient workaround has been given in the answer to the crosspost on GenAI.SE:

It's a chatbot. Simply ask it to restrict its search.

If one is willing to use generative AI with its inherent drawbacks, then this drawback should be reasonable to accept as well.

If the whole prompt is parsed by an LLM normally, then the following text that is generated is merely an approximation, a statistical likelihood, and not a guaranteed outcome. In other words, it's up to the LLM itself if it wants to respect your requirement. The LLM itself is, to the best of my knowledge, not designed to be able to do that, because it doesn't reason; it doesn't comply with strict rules, because the prompt isn't parsed to generate strict rules. It's read as tokens to generate new tokens.

In other words, the answer is "no" as long as there is no bypass for the prompt. Even if you could set such a limit, there would still be no way to filter the training material, as that step is long in the past.

posted 12 days ago

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