Why did ChatGPT maker OpenAI disable ‘Browse with Bing’?
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OpenAI temporarily disabled Browse with Bing, a beta feature for ChatGPT subscribers. To learn more, read the full story on The Hindu.
OpenAI temporarily disabled Browse with Bing, a beta feature for ChatGPT subscribers. The move comes after reports emerged the feature could bypass restrictions to display content on websites protected by paywalls.
The company said the feature was disabled after it learned it can “occasionally display content in ways we don’t want”, the company said in its help center update..
The company disabled internet browsing and is working on a fix. “We are working to bring the beta back as quickly as possible”, the company added.
The feature could bypass paywalls when asked to display the full text of specific URLs which it could return despite the information being part of premium subscriptions.
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With web browsing being disabled, ChatGPT will not be able to display information beyond its training cutoff date of September 2021.
Earlier, in January, reports had emerged that the OpenAI chatbot could be leveraged to write code and malware by threat actors. The company later released an update making it difficult for cyber criminals to use the conversational AI as a tool to write malicious code.
“Writing, in general, is a very solitary process,” says Yauvanika Chopra, Associate Director at The New India Foundation (NIF), which, earlier this year, announced the 12th edition of its NIF Book Fellowships for research and scholarship about Indian history after Independence. While authors, in general, are built for it, it can still get very lonely, says Chopra, pointing out that the fellowship’s community support is as valuable as the monetary benefits it offers. “There is a solid community of NIF fellows, trustees, language experts, jury members, all of whom are incredibly competent,” she says. “They really help make authors feel supported from manuscript to publication, so you never feel like you’re struggling through isolation.”
Several principals of government and private schools in Delhi on Tuesday said the Directorate of Education (DoE) circular from a day earlier, directing schools to conduct classes in ‘hybrid’ mode, had caused confusion regarding day-to-day operations as they did not know how many students would return to school from Wednesday and how would teachers instruct in two modes — online and in person — at once. The DoE circular on Monday had also stated that the option to “exercise online mode of education, wherever available, shall vest with the students and their guardians”. Several schoolteachers also expressed confusion regarding the DoE order. A government schoolteacher said he was unsure of how to cope with the resumption of physical classes, given that the order directing government offices to ensure that 50% of the employees work from home is still in place. On Monday, the Commission for Air Quality Management in the National Capital Region and Adjoining Areas (CAQM) had, on the orders of the Supreme Court, directed schools in Delhi-NCR to shift classes to the hybrid mode, following which the DoE had issued the circular. The court had urged the Centre’s pollution watchdog to consider restarting physical classes due to many students missing out on the mid-day meals and lacking the necessary means to attend classes online. The CAQM had, on November 20, asked schools in Delhi-NCR to shift to the online mode of teaching.