OpenAI Disables Bing Search Integration with ChatGPT, Why?

OpenAI has decided to disable the Bing Search integration on ChatGPT. (Pexels)

JAKARTA - OpenAI has decided to disable Bing Search integration on ChatGPT. The company found some users took advantage of the feature to skip paid content.

The feature, dubbed Browse with Bing, is often used to make users subscribe to a site. Users without site subscriptions are prohibited from accessing published information.

Browse with Bing is only available for ChatGPT Plus subscribers, the premium tier of the very popular chatbot.

As seen in the r/ChatGPT community on Reddit, some users have found new ways to bypass these paid requests and access information without having to subscribe.

Seeing this, the company immediately disabled the Browse with Bing beta feature on July 3 yesterday, "We have learned that the ChatGPT Browse beta sometimes displays content in a way we don't want," said OpenAI on its official Twitter account.

"For example if a user specifically requests the full text of a URL, it may inadvertently fulfill this request. We disabled Browse while we fix it — wanted to do right by the content owner," he added.

In a follow-up tweet, OpenAI said, "This is why we started with beta, we have received very valuable feedback, learned a lot," he said. The company claims to be relaunching the feature soon.

It is known that Microsoft, as the owner of Bing Search, said at the Build 2023 event that it would bring Bing to ChatGPT to improve its search experience, as quoted from Windows Central, Wednesday, July 5.

Previously, ChatGPT depended on OpenAI's GPT-4 model as well, which limited its capabilities. The reason is, chatbots can only access information until September 2021.