OpenAI has been hyping ChatGPT as the Google killer. The future of search. The disruptor that will replace the old guard.
But behind the scenes, investigators uncovered something explosive: ChatGPT is secretly pulling real-time answers straight from Google Search data.
How did they find out? Developers created dummy pages indexed only by Google. When ChatGPT served that content back, the secret was exposed.
Instead of a fully independent AI search engine, ChatGPT is leaning on scraped Google results through SerpApi.
The irony is impossible to ignore. The supposed Google killer still depends on Google’s index. It still runs on Google Cloud. And even OpenAI admits it can’t yet stand on its own.
The search revolution isn’t pure AI magic. It’s a backdoor dependence on Google itself.
