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OpenAI Finally Allows ChatGPT Complete Internet Access

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Re: OpenAI Finally Allows ChatGPT Complete Internet Access

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Will blocking User-agent: GPTBot in robots.txt work for this too?

This time it's not scraping the internet (like a robot) but actually acting as a direct user agent for the human typing their prompt, so I wouldn't be against them ignoring robots.txt.

I thought the same but OpenAI may train on user chats by default. Maybe if training's off, they could ignore robots.txt, or they could flag the content to be skipped.

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#12

Google search is dead.

I thought Google's given Bard access to the internet?? I guess people still don't think to use Bard over ChatGPT

Even the Bard UI is worse. Being able to read the ChatGPT output as it's generated, instead of staring at a blank screen, is a massive time saver. And, I prefer ChatGPT trying stuff rather than Bard telling me that 'it can't do that right now' and 'we're trying to get better'. I've tried Bard, it's just not worth it.

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I've been relatively unimpressed with the ChatGPT browse mode.

My problem with it is that it seems to run really obvious, naive searches. Most of the time I ask it something, then see what it's searching for and think "oh no, that's not going to return anything more useful than what I could have found myself".

It's also pretty slow.

I'm very much looking forward to having a search assistant which can go ahead and wade through eg 20 websites about home battery packs and show me a summary table of my options - ChatGPT Browse isn't quite that yet.

Re: OpenAI Finally Allows ChatGPT Complete Internet Access

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Will blocking User-agent: GPTBot in robots.txt work for this too?

This time it's not scraping the internet (like a robot) but actually acting as a direct user agent for the human typing their prompt, so I wouldn't be against them ignoring robots.txt.

Wait, so a simple web scraper script has to comply with robots.txt. But if I want to completely ignore the robots.txt, I only have to make my script more complicated (ChatGPT)?

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post #9

So this means it can actually do things now, at least in principle, right?

Not according to ChatGPT a few seconds ago

Default (GPT-3.5)

User do you have access to search the internet yet? ChatGPT I do not have the capability to search the internet or access real-time information. My knowledge is based on the text that I was trained on, and my training only includes information up until September 2021. I can provide information and answer questions to the best of my knowledge up to that date, but I cannot browse the web or access current information.

Re: OpenAI Finally Allows ChatGPT Complete Internet Access

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post #13

I've been relatively unimpressed with the ChatGPT browse mode. My problem with it is that it seems to run really obvious, naive searches. Most of the time I ask it something, then see what it's searching for and think "oh no, that's not going to return anything more useful than what I could have found myself". It's also pretty slow. I'm very much looking forward to having a search assistant which can go ahead and wad…

Have you tried perplexity.ai? It has become my go-to for LLM + browsing. It is really fast and does a pretty good job with retrieval and summarization.

Re: OpenAI Finally Allows ChatGPT Complete Internet Access

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post #9

So this means it can actually do things now, at least in principle, right?

Not according to ChatGPT a few seconds ago Default (GPT-3.5) User do you have access to search the internet yet? ChatGPT I do not have the capability to search the internet or access real-time information. My knowledge is based on the text that I was trained on, and my training only includes information up until September 2021. I can provide information and answer questions to the best of my knowledge up to that date…

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