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ChatGPT can now search the web in real time

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Re: ChatGPT can now search the web in real time

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Post by skilled »

It’s interesting that OpenAI themselves are not calling this “you can browse again” and also throwing in the “no longer limited by September 2021 cutoff” even though it is January 2022.

Stinks to me like they are pulling a little marketing campaign to lure in new users and the media is happy to oblige to use the same language/phrasing.

For reference, they disabled browsing because you could bypass paywalls with it.

Re: ChatGPT can now search the web in real time

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Post by koolba »

> OpenAI posted today that ChatGPT can once more trawl the web for current information, offering answers taken directly from “current and authoritative” sources, which it cites in its responses.

The list is apparently cited in responses, but is the list of possible sources itself public?

Re: ChatGPT can now search the web in real time

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Post by Someone1234 »

skilled wrote: post #2

It’s interesting that OpenAI themselves are not calling this “you can browse again” and also throwing in the “no longer limited by September 2021 cutoff” even though it is January 2022. Stinks to me like they are pulling a little marketing campaign to lure in new users and the media is happy to oblige to use the same language/phrasing. For reference, they disabled browsing because you could bypass paywalls with it.

The Jan 2022 thing is likely not helpful anyway as it doesn't give higher weight to newer information (i.e. pre-2021 info could be returned even if Jan 2022 info may contradict it).

Re: ChatGPT can now search the web in real time

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Post by simonw »

koolba wrote: post #3

> OpenAI posted today that ChatGPT can once more trawl the web for current information, offering answers taken directly from “current and authoritative” sources, which it cites in its responses. The list is apparently cited in responses, but is the list of possible sources itself public?

I imagine it's everything on the web that's been crawled by Bing and hasn't blocked ChatGPT explicitly in its robots.txt file.

Re: ChatGPT can now search the web in real time

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Post by simonw »

skilled wrote: post #2

It’s interesting that OpenAI themselves are not calling this “you can browse again” and also throwing in the “no longer limited by September 2021 cutoff” even though it is January 2022. Stinks to me like they are pulling a little marketing campaign to lure in new users and the media is happy to oblige to use the same language/phrasing. For reference, they disabled browsing because you could bypass paywalls with it.

I wish they'd document the cut-off date properly.

It's not strictly January 2022, because I've seen people get answers about the 2022 Superbowl (February 2022) and the Will Smith slap at the Oscars (March 2022) as well.

Though I've been unable to replicate the Oscars one myself.

Re: ChatGPT can now search the web in real time

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Post by willsmith72 »

simonw wrote: post #7
koolba wrote: post #3

> OpenAI posted today that ChatGPT can once more trawl the web for current information, offering answers taken directly from “current and authoritative” sources, which it cites in its responses. The list is apparently cited in responses, but is the list of possible sources itself public?

I imagine it's everything on the web that's been crawled by Bing and hasn't blocked ChatGPT explicitly in its robots.txt file.

have openai's crawlers really paid attention to people's robots.txts?
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