Since the birth of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, publishers have expressed concerns that the generative AI chatbot’s ability to give information without citing sources could lead to a decline in the referral traffic publishers get from search results.One of the things publishers still had going for them to reduce the chatbot’s impact on their traffic was publishing real time information and breaking news as ChatGPT could only access data up until September 2021. Until now.OpenAI announced last week that the chatbot can now access content on the internet in real time. While the feature is only available to paying ChatGPT users for now, OpenAI said in a post on X that the feature will “expand to all users soon.”
Origen: ChatGPT’s latest update fuels publishers’ concerns about AI chatbots siphoning traffic – Digiday
