The ChatGPT website went down for a few minutes and then I saw this update.
“As of July 3, 2023, we’ve disabled the Browse with Bing beta feature out of an abundance of caution while we fix this in order to do right by content owners. We are working to bring the beta back as quickly as possible, and appreciate your understanding!”
[https://help.openai.com/en/articles/8077698-how-do-i-use-chatgpt-browse-with-bing-to-search-the-web](Bing Help Article)
Just noticed this. Honestly a bit worried that it’s going to be nerfed to an unreasonable degree once it comes back.
Nerfed more?
By making it take 5 minutes to complete a search rather than 2 minutes?
By failing 80% of the time rather than 40%
Have you had it reply “Sorry, I didn’t have enough time to complete the search. I’ll keep on researching and come back to you”
and then 3 queries (on unrelated matters) later rather than answering the future query it answers the query from 3 queries ago?
A bit of a joke.
I’m here cause I used the Bing feature like 2 hours ago to search the Panthers upcoming NFL schedule. Come back to test some other ideas and it’s gone. Didn’t even GPT published an iOS app until earlier today. Bad timing for me
Don’t you think for relatively simple queries (and perhaps more complicated) bing chat is more than sufficient?
Most assuredly. My main experience with GPT was creating an HTML doc from scratch for a work project. I’ve been a very casual user otherwise
Haha thanks I came here to post about this.
One question is: if chatgpt and browser does this, does bing also do this but microsoft isn’t pulling it?
I hope when openai bring it back they improve the browser - it’s far too slow and often fails.
I’m not sure, it will be interesting to see what the actual changes are that get implemented. I’m guessing the recent lawsuits are making them nervous so they are playing it safe.
I agree with you on the browser, it fails constantly for me, hopefully that is improved.
Isn’t returning “a URL’s full text” exactly what all web browsers do when you enter a URL and go to that website?
Even if a site has paywalls and stuff, it often still serves its full text to your web browser. Was ChatGPT just bypassing paywalls or was it serving text that wouldn’t normally be distributed to all users on a web browser?
