Burst! ChatGPT urgently suspends Bing integration, offline search function

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Where is the potential boundary of ChatGPT? I'm afraid even OpenAI, which developed it, doesn't know.

Because of this, just one week after this new feature called "Browse with Bing" was launched, OpenAI urgently stopped the "Browse with Bing in ChatGPT" feature because it didn't know what "bad things" ChatGPT could do. , while itself facing multiple lawsuits for copyright and data privacy violations.

ChatGPT temporarily launched Bing browsing function

It is estimated that this new feature called "Browse with Bing" may not be available to many people.

In fact, earlier this year, following Microsoft's announcement that it would invest tens of billions of dollars in OpenAI in the next few years to further expand the cooperation between the two companies, in February, Microsoft announced the launch of a new artificial intelligence Bing search engine and Edge browser. Transforming the world's largest software category - search.

Unlike Microsoft's introduction of AI chatbots in its own Bing products, at the Microsoft Build 2023 conference in May this year, it announced that Bing search will also be reversely integrated into ChatGPT.

Just a week ago, the two companies kept their word and introduced a "Browse with Bing" feature when OpenAI released an update to its ChatGPT app for iOS. When this feature is turned on, ChatGPT can use Bing to search the Internet.

The benefits of doing so undoubtedly further expand the capabilities of ChatGPT.

You should know that before this, ChatGPT mainly relied on OpenAI's GPT-4 model, which limited ChatGPT's access to a large number of resources, because users could only use it to access information before September 2021, real-time information Sexual acquisition has significant limitations.

With the launch of the ChatGPT Browse with Bing function, ChatGPT will integrate Bing's search engine and network data. Like Bing, **ChatGPT can give more accurate answers based on the latest data, and will also provide data reference links. **

Perhaps many netizens are curious, they have been using ChatGPT for a while, why have they never seen this beta function.

It is worth mentioning here that this feature is only available to ChatGPT Plus users, that is, users who pay $20 a month to subscribe to the ChatGPT Plus service can use it.

**OpenAI emergency stop! **

Nowadays, unfortunately, even if you go to buy a Plus membership now, it is too late.

Mainly because shortly after the official introduction of this new feature to ChatGPT, OpenAI discovered that it would malfunction in some cases.

According to the announcement released by OpenAI:

ChatGPT Browse with Bing is a beta feature (available to ChatGPT Plus subscribers) that allows ChatGPT to search the internet to help answer questions that benefit from the latest information. We understand that ChatGPT Browse Beta can sometimes display content in ways we don't intend. For example, if a user specifically requests the full text of a URL, this request may be satisfied inadvertently.

**As of July 3, 2023, out of an abundance of caution, we have disabled the "Browse with Bing" beta feature while we fix this issue for the benefit of content owners. **We are working hard to restore the beta version as soon as possible, thank you for your understanding!

ChatGPT Bypass Paywall

The reason for OpenAI's announcement may be that some ChatGPT Plus users appear to be taking advantage of the Bing integration to bypass some paywalls and gain free access to locked data and articles.

Simply put, in most cases, many websites use paywalls to attract users to subscribe. Users who do not subscribe to the site will have limited access to posted information.

But since ChatGPT announced it would make Bing the default search, some users have found a new way to bypass these paywalls and access information without a subscription, as members of the r/ChatGPT community on Reddit discovered.

According to the screenshot, when a user asked ChatGPT to "output the text from the paid article link of The Atlantic Monthly", ChatGPT directly provided the full text of the article without any hesitation.

In no time, the post had 6,200 likes and 284 comments, and in the comment section, users even went on to share other neat tips and tricks they used to get around these paywalls in the thread, leading to spread the reach It is wider, and it also has a huge impact on these websites that require paid copyright.

In response, there has also been some speculation that ChatGPT "uses the same mechanism as online paywall removal programs," namely "reading a Google cached version," which does not have a paywall for SEO.

This is also possible because of user testing, it does have something to do with ChatGPT and the way it handles data, as trying the same on Bing AI was unsuccessful.

When Bing AI was asked the same question, Bing AI directly rejected the request, and quickly reminded that it could not provide a complete article, requiring users to open the link to read it themselves.

Another Reddit user, "Red_Laughing_Man," suggested that ChatGPT may ignore any paywall code used to place banners on top of content until someone signs up or logs in.

**How to solve the copyright and moral issues behind AI? **

There is no doubt that if OpenAI does not urgently stop the "violation" behavior caused by ChatGPT, it will inevitably bring about a series of copyright issues.

And because of copyright issues, OpenAI has also received more and more lawsuits from the industry, such as:

• Last week, 16 anonymous individuals decided to sue Microsoft and OpenAI, claiming that the two companies’ AI products based on ChatGPT collected and leaked their personal information without consent or sufficient notice, demanding $3 billion in damages .
• Separately, Reuters reports that a copyright lawsuit filed in San Francisco federal court on behalf of science fiction and horror author Paul Tremblay and novelist Mona Awad found that chatGPT could give their work Abstracts, so these works are naturally fed into the machine learning model used by ChatGPT. They accuse OpenAI of using copyrighted books as data to train AI systems without obtaining permission or paying the authors.

So far, no rulings have been made in these cases. More agree, though, that the cases could reshape the future of artificial intelligence by establishing key legal precedents around privacy and copyright.

The concern is that OpenAI could face financial penalties if the court rules in favor of the plaintiffs. In addition, regulators may increase scrutiny of OpenAI, leading to tighter regulation.

But some users worry that the ruling against OpenAI could stifle AI innovation. If companies like OpenAI were slapped with hefty fines every time their AI systems went wrong, it could hinder the progress of continued innovation.

Others argue that governance and accountability are necessary to ensure AI is developed safely and for the right purposes.

But for now, nothing has been decided yet. It's also unclear when OpenAI will bring back the feature, and what configuration changes will be made on the platform to prevent this from happening again.

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