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Haha, what's that gonna do? Ever heard of soft delete? It's a thing where even if you delete something off a website, the database still retains that information even though it becomes inaccessible by the public.

Everything we write on the web is like that, including this very comment.



even if it were a hard delete, do these people think OpenAI is scraping the live version of the site?

the answers have already been exported. all you're doing by deleting it is ensuring it's only available on ChatGPT, and no longer available to web users who aren't using AI tools that ingested the content before it was deleted.


It lowers the value of the site if people stop answering and sabotage their existing answers in protest. Does that make sense? Do you understand?




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