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Using ChatGPT whoring web pages to pay for content will not work soon.

Just yesterday, OpenAI announced that ChatGPT's official web browsing mode would be temporarily disabled.

Although the announcement is very obscure, the main purpose of this feature off the shelves is to urgently fix the loophole of "crossing the paywall".

The corresponding prompt also appears in the interface of ChatGPT.

Some netizens mistakenly think that they want to be off the shelves permanently, saying that they cannot accept it. "it is worth paying for it if they can connect to the Internet."

After learning that it was only temporarily cancelled, netizens' excitement seems to have calmed down, but they are still looking forward to the early return of this function.

Before it was revealed that it was "stealing" paid content, ChatGPT was exposed to be able to climb over the paywall and get the hidden full text.

This is ChatGPT once again involved in copyright issues after it was revealed that it was using copyrighted content for training.

OpenAI did not explain why this vulnerability occurred.

However, different content owners have different ways to protect paid content.

Some of the paid content has been loaded when the web page is opened, but is hidden by technical means.

Normally browsers don't display these words directly, but there are other ways to display them, even if not through ChatGPT.

On the other hand, ChatGPT reads the content of web pages in code, which does not work in front of ChatGPT.

But when we look at the front-end code, we find that the sites mentioned in the revelations (now) do not load in this way.

If the content side did not find the leak and made an emergency update, it means that there are other reasons for ChatGPT's vulnerability in leaking paid content.

Although there is not much explanation, the suspension of ChatGPT's web browsing function by OpenAI is an urgent fix to this problem.

In addition, we tested whether this limitation can be bypassed by historical chats with web browsing.

As a result, there was a prompt that "the old model used in this conversation is not available", saying directly that he did not have web browsing capabilities.

However, some plug-ins with web browsing capabilities are still available, such as WebPilot.

In addition to OpenAI's efforts to fix this loophole, some paid content owners have also put in place precautions.

For example, when we tried to use WebPilot to get paid articles from Bloomberg, we were blocked by the security system.

Traffic on ChatGPT fell for the first time last month, according to Similarweb.

The number of views and the number of unique visitors decreased by 9.7% and 5.7%, respectively.

As can also be seen from the picture above, the growth rate of page views has slowed since March and leveled off in May until this decline.

On the other hand, the length of a single visit showed a downward trend in March, with the average length of each stay reduced by about one minute.

However, compared with other products, including Bing, ChatGPT's leading position in page views has not changed.

It should be noted that the above data only count the number of visits to the web version.

The call data of API cannot be counted by a third party.

Visits to the OpenAI developer platform are up 3.9% from May, but still less than the 140 million visits in March.

How long do you think the ChatGPT will stay hot?

Reference link:

[1] https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/1676072388436594688

[2] https://community.openai.com/t/chatgpt4-browsing-bing-disabled/286800/9

[3] https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/chatgpt-pauses-bing-integration-to-stop-people-from-bypassing-paywalls

[4] https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/14j8q1u/it_looks_like_you_can_use_chatgpt_to_bypass/

[4] https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/1673090895929810945?s=20

[6] https://www.similarweb.com/blog/insights/ai-news/chatgpt-traffic-drops/

This article is from the official account of Wechat: qubit (ID:QbitAI). Author: Creasy.

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