Don’t trust ChatGPT Search and definitely verify anything it tells you [Video]

In October, OpenAI integrated ChatGPT Search into ChatGPT, promising an experience in which users could browse the web and access the latest news from its news partners and sites that have not blocked OpenAI’s web crawler. A new review by Columbia’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism shows that the process may not be as efficient as it sounds. 

The Tow Center performed a test to determine how well publisher content is represented on ChatGPT. It selected 10 articles from 20 random publishers who partnered with OpenAI, are involved in lawsuits against OpenAI, or unaffiliated publishers who either allowed or blocked the web crawler. 

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The researcher then extracted 200 quotes, which, when run among search engines like Google or Bing, pointed back to the source in the top three results. Finally, it was time to let ChatGPT identify the quotes’ …