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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 #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Yes. There's even a project tracking which newspapers are blocking them here: https://palewi.re/docs/news-homepages/openai-gptbot-robotstx...

Re: ChatGPT can now search the web in real time

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post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

It would appear so from the significant network of sites I am responsible for that have put such robots.txt changes into place.

Re: ChatGPT can now search the web in real time

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Did something change about their security model that I've missed? Won't this be just as vulnerable to the same poisoned website attacks that made them turn it off in the first place?

Edit: Ah, never mind, I'm remembering wrong. They turned it off previously because it could bypass paywalls, not because of security concerns. So the answer is likely, "yes it is still just as insecure as ever, but now there are probably some checks to keep it from summarizing paywalled news articles." :shrug:

Re: ChatGPT can now search the web in real time

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post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Yes. There's even a project tracking which newspapers are blocking them here: https://palewi.re/docs/news-homepages/openai-gptbot-robotstx...

Oh wow, getting 43.6% of newspapers to do anything collectively over a brief period of time is... definitely not an easy achievement.

Re: ChatGPT can now search the web in real time

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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.

Paywalls was why they removed that feature?? This is why I hate OpenAI as much as I love them. They deliver miracles, but seem to have a pathological urge to make their product worse.
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