There may be some concern and hypothesis on the web that Microsoft Bing is feeding in content material behind paywall and utilizing such content material to offer solutions in Bing Chat. I requested Bing Chat if it may give solutions based mostly on content material behind paywalls and it stated no, it can not.
However I’m not positive if this reply is 100% true:
Right here is one thread about Bing Chat referencing and citing content material behind a paywall to offer a solution for Bing Chat:
It’s a tough minefield. If confirmed that these generative AIs are skilled on proprietary and/or paywalled content material, it opens the door to, let’s assume, attention-grabbing litigation.
— Barry Adams 📰 (@badams) March 19, 2023
Now, is that this doable? Effectively, there could be solutions on why Bing was capable of entry this content material:
(1) Possibly the content material was open for a time frame the place it was not behind a paywall and Bing listed it?
(2) Possibly the content material supplier is giving this paywalled content material to Bingbot with no paywall. There are licensed methods to present paywalled content material to search engines like google, just like the outdated first click on free and versatile sampling options.
So technically, the content material may now be behind a paywall for customers however not for search engines like google.
So technically, Bingbot would not see the paywall however customers may.
That could be a doable technical rationalization.
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