A week after the ChatGPT Browse feature went live on the iOS app, OpenAI had to disable it because it was displaying content “in a way we don’t want to,” according to a tweet from the company. created the AI chatbot.
The feature allowed users to bypass paywalls to access subscription-based content without a subscription. “If a user specifically requests the full text of a URL, that request may be inadvertently fulfilled. We are disabling Browse while we fix this issue – we want to do the right thing for content owners,” continues the company’s tweet.
Users must be members of ChatGPT Plus to become beta users of the Browse feature, as it is only available under the GPT-4 model, and select the web browsing model, a Bing-based search engine.
ChatGPT, obedient as always, responded with the text of the article, even if it was behind a paywall
Users quickly discovered the workaround mentioned above, which involves giving ChatGPT links to different news sites and asking the AI chatbot to respond only with the text contained in the URL.
ChatGPT, obedient as always, answered every time with the text of the article, even if it was behind a paywall.
OpenAI’s tweet says the company wants to “do the right thing for content owners,” so it’s turned off navigation altogether.
While it’s unclear exactly when the Bing-powered navigation feature will be available again, OpenAI president and co-founder Greg Brockman said tweeted that the team was working on bringing the navigation feature back in the near future.
Source: “ZDNet.com”