OpenAI turns ChatGPT into a search engine
Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy OpenAI has integrated a search engine into its AI chatbot ChatGPT, allowing users to get up-to-date information about news, sport and weather. Google’s makeover came after a year of testing with a small group of users but usage still resulted in falsehoods showing the risks of ceding the search for information to AI chatbots prone to making errors known as hallucinations. As part of OpenAI’s plan to provide up-to-date information, the company has partnered with a number of news and data organisations, which will see their content appear in results, with links to the original source, again mimicking a traditional search engine. “The search model is a fine-tuned version of GPT-4o, post-trained using novel synthetic data generation techniques, including distilling outputs from OpenAI o1-preview,” the company wrote in a blog post announcing the new search tool “ChatGPT search leverages third-party search providers, as well as content provided directly by our partners, to provide the information users are looking for.” Additional reporting from agencies.
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