A few months ago, ChatGPT gave users a reason to join the paid Plus subscription, and OpenAI announced its partnership with Microsoft’s Bing for this purpose. This partnership enabled the language model to be connected to the live internet. But then standard ChatGPT users realized they could access paid content and OpenAI was forced to remove the feature.
The company has now fixed the issues and is ready to reintroduce ChatGPT support for live internet browsing. As in May, paid users will first have access to this feature. However, OpenAI also stated in its brief announcement that it plans to expand the feature to all users soon. Unless you’re in a rush to try out the live web plugin, you don’t have to pay for the ChatGPT Plus upgrade to get the feature.
It’s unclear exactly what OpenAI means by “soon,” but the generative AI space is very competitive right now. So OpenAI cannot afford to limit ChatGPT to data no newer than September 2021. While competitors like Google are integrating Google Bard into all kinds of Google applications, such a limitation would set the company far behind. Additionally, Bard already has access to live internet.
Besides these, we should not forget Microsoft’s ChatGPT-based Bing Chat, which can browse the web. While Microsoft is an OpenAI partner, its AI can also be considered a competitor.
“ChatGPT can now browse the internet to provide you with up-to-date and authoritative information with direct links to sources,” OpenAI said, offering a use case in
As this message shows, OpenAI is also looking to start solving another problem with generative AI products. Bots like ChatGPT can hallucinate information, meaning they can give misleading answers. Therefore, when using this type of artificial intelligence support, it would be beneficial to always ask for sources and links and check the accuracy of the data. However, due to data date limit, ChatGPT may not always be able to provide you with an active or useful connection. A live connection to the internet will bring this feature to ChatGPT and you will be able to see direct links to resources in your results so you can verify the information.
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