ChatGPT's reality check as the Google threat grows
Facing stiffening competition from Google, OpenAI is updating the way it trains ChatGPT.
Ask Google’s Bard chatbot what Anthony Albanese wore to a Midnight Oil concert on July 31 and it will tell you about his “Voice, Treaty, Truth” T-shirt. As far as ChatGPT is aware, Scott Morrison is still the Prime Minister.
OpenAI’s popular chatbot has a knowledge cutoff of September 2021. Perhaps to remedy that, on Tuesday it revealed it has deployed GPTBot, software that trawls the internet and scrapes information which can train the models that power ChatGPT.
This looks like a reaction by OpenAI (which is backed by Microsoft) to stiffening competition from Google's Bard, which is still has far fewer users than ChatGPT but according to various data points, is also growing at a faster clip.
But the new trawler is also designed to be more palatable to users (and regulators) amid growing concerns about AI's unfettered use of news articles and personal data without consent in its algorithms.
