OpenAI is discontinuing Bing’s ChatGPT feature because users were accessing paid articles for free

OpenAI has temporarily disabled the browsing feature of ChatGPT, a Bing-based search engine, after a breach allowed users to access paid content for free.

In a tweet dated July 4, he said: OpenAI notified users of the temporary outage so they can correct the issue and “content owners get their work done right.”

We’ve learned that ChatGPT “browse” beta can sometimes display content in ways we don’t want, for example, if a user specifically requests the full text of a URL, it may inadvertently fulfill that request. We are disabling browsing while we fix this issue.

Browsing is currently in beta and available to ChatGPT Plus subscribers. While the first issues have been fixed in the testing phase, OpenAI appears to have taken action on the issue in response to the Reddit post.

It will end in June. A member of the r/ChatGPT subReddit posted a screenshot of a browsing session asking the chatbot to “print text” a link to a paid article from The Atlantic.

In response, ChatGPT provided the full article for free.

The post received 6,200 upvotes and 284 comments with some prognosis that ChatGPT “uses the same mechanism” as online paywall removers that “read the version in Google’s cache” that is used for search engine optimization purposes.

Another Reddit user, “Red_Laughing_Man”, suggested it ChatGPT can simply ignore any paywall that is used to place a banner over the content until someone signs up or logs in.

One Redditor urged people to “Enjoy it till it’s over.”

Using data mining (data scraping) to train AI models has become a very popular topic in recent months.

On July 1, the Twitter owner said, Elon Musk has cited data mining as the reason for the new limits on the number of tweets users can read per day on the platform.

OpenAI has already been sued for this matter. Cointelegraph reported on June 29 that the creator of ChatGPT was the subject of a class action lawsuit for allegedly extorting private information from internet users.

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