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by minimaxir 1088 days ago
The "in order to do right by content owners" quote implies that certain companies did not like that Browse with Bing could be used to bypass paywalls.
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"For example, if a user specifically asks for a URL's full text, it might inadvertently fulfill this request." is even clearer. Like, in what cases would you not want to fulfill that request?
> commit: don't summarize paywalled content

But that's just me hypothesizing.

I think the majority of website publishers would be unhappy to learn that their work was taken and redisplayed wholesale by a for-profit company.
Then don't publish the content to this partner for-profit company ?
How do you suggest website owners do that? By becoming aware, after the fact, that they can add OpenAI to their robots.txt file, and hoping for the best in the next model update? By adding a paywall? By not publishing at all?