OpenAI pauses ChatGPT’s Bing feature as users were jumping paywalls

ChatGPT’s Browse, a Bing-based search engine feature, has been temporarily disabled by OpenAI after a loophole enabled users to bypass paywalled content.

In a July 4 tweet, OpenAI notified users of the temporary halt so it could patch the issue and “do right by content owners.”

“We’ve learned that ChatGPT’s ‘Browse’ beta can occasionally display content in ways we don’t want, e.g. if a user specifically asks for a URL’s full text, it may inadvertently fulfill this request. We are disabling Browse while we fix this.”

We’ve learned that ChatGPT’s “Browse” beta can occasionally display content in ways we don’t want, e.g. if a user specifically asks for a URL’s full text, it may inadvertently fulfill this request. We are disabling Browse while we fix this—want to do right by content owners.

— OpenAI (@OpenAI)

The use of data scraping to train AI models has become a prevalent issue over recent months.

On July 1, Twitter owner Elon Musk cited data scraping as the reason for new limits on how many tweets users can read per day on the platform.

OpenAI has previously been sued over the issue. Cointelegraph reported on June 29 that the ChatGPT creator was hit with a class action lawsuit for allegedly scraping private user information from the internet.

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