OpenAI has disabled the Browse with Bing feature in ChatGPT to prevent users from bypassing paywalls and accessing website information without making a subscription first.

  • doctortofu
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    12 years ago

    “We have noticed that by accident we provided a user-friendly functionality without trying to extract money out of you. We apologize for the convenience and promise that we will make sure it never happens again”

  • Frellwit
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    02 years ago

    I’m wondering why websites keep using fake paywalls when they can use a real one where the content isn’t available until user verification.

    • @UESPA_Sputnik@lemmy.world
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      -12 years ago

      They do that to let search engines index their articles. Then they switch on the paywall an hour later or so but still get a lot of traffic (which is good for advertising) when people click on the link on Google etc.