OpenAI suspends ChatGPT's Bing feature when users skip paywalls

ChatGPT's browsing is a Bing-based search engine feature that OpenAI temporarily disabled after a bug allowed users to bypass paywall content.

In a July 4 tweet, OpenAI notified users of the temporary hold so it could patch the issue and "get it right by the content owner."

"We've learned that ChatGPT's 'browse' beta can occasionally display content in ways we don't intend, for example, if a user specifically asks for the full text of a URL, it may inadvertently fulfill this request. We're disabling browse while fixing it."

Browse is currently in beta and available to subscribers of the ChatGPT Plus service. OpenAI appears to have taken action on the issue, in response to the Reddit post, as earlier issues were resolved during the testing phase.

In late June, a member of the r/ChatGPT subReddit posted screenshots of a browsing session in which they asked the chatbot to "print" a link to a paywall article from The Atlantic.

In response, ChatGPT made the article available in full without a paywall. Posted on r/ChatGPT showing it may scrape text hidden behind a paywall.

The post received 6,200 upvotes and 284 comments, with some speculating that ChatGPT "uses the same mechanism as an online paywall remover" that "reads the Google cached version" and that the remover is not used for SEO purpose paywall.

Another Reddit user "Red_Laughing_Man" suggested that ChatGPT might just be able to ignore any paywall code used to place a banner on top of the content until someone signs up or logs in.

One Redditor aptly urged people to "enjoy it while it lasts". Using data scraping to train AI models has become a common problem in recent months.

On July 1, Twitter owner Elon Musk cited data scraping as the reason for a new limit on how many tweets users can read on the platform each day.

OpenAI has previously been sued over the issue. Cointelegraph reported on June 29 that the creators of ChatGPT are facing a class-action lawsuit for allegedly scraping private user information from the internet.

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