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OpenAI introduces new web search tool to ChatGPT

News: ChatGPT can now search the Internet for relevant answers to user queries. Previously, it was limited to generating answers based on its training data and had limited web search capabilities. But now ChatGPT will automatically search the web in response to queries about the latest information, such as sports, stocks or the news of the day, and can provide rich multimedia results.

How to use it: The feature is currently available to paying users of the chatbot, but OpenAI intends to make it available for free later, even if people are logged out. It also plans to combine search with voice features.

Context: OpenAI is the latest tech company to unveil an artificial intelligence-powered search assistant, challenging similar tools from rivals like Google, Microsoft and startup Perplexity. However, none of these tools are immune to the constant tendency of AI language models to make mistakes or make mistakes. Read the full story.

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AI Search Could Break the Internet

— Benjamin Brooks is a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard studying regulatory and legislative responses to AI.

At its best, AI search can better determine user intent, improve content quality, and synthesize information from different sources. But if AI search becomes our primary gateway to the Internet, it threatens to disrupt an already fragile digital economy.

Today, online content production depends on a fragile set of incentives associated with virtual traffic: advertising, subscriptions, donations, sales or brand awareness. By protecting the network with an all-knowing chatbot, AI search could deprive creators of the traffic and eyeballs they need to survive. Here’s what the industry needs to do to make AI search sustainable.