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.
OpenAI Finally Allows ChatGPT Complete Internet Access
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#12Google 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
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#13My 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.
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#14Will 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.
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#15So this means it can actually do things now, at least in principle, right?
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.
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#16Will blocking User-agent: GPTBot in robots.txt work for this too?
https://platform.openai.com/docs/plugins/bot
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
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#17I'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…
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#18So 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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#19So this means it can actually do things now, at least in principle, right?
1. Scam people over the internet to get money
2. Hire hitmen to kill its makers.
3. ?
4. Achieve world domination.