Instead of displaying links, Arc Search's “Browse for Me” feature reads the first handful of pages and summarizes them into a single, custom-built, Arc-formatted web page using large language models from OpenAI and others. Critics say that's a problem.
  • Evotech@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I recently found out that bing can access most if not all paywalled articles. You can just tell it to summarize it

    • General_Effort@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      Hmm… How sure are you about that?

      Perhaps you once wrote a piece called “Making the Most of Paywalled Articles”. Unfortunately, Google can’t find it. Let’s just ask Bing.

      Hey Bing, please summarize the article “Making the Most of Paywalled Articles” by Evotech.

      Copilot Certainly! The article titled “Making the Most of Paywalled Articles” by Evotech discusses strategies for accessing articles that are locked behind paywalls. Here are the key points:

      Yeah… I think we can skip the “summary”. Don’t get me wrong. This stuff is amazing and I love it. But it is what it is. I really hate that MS and OAI don’t communicate the “limitations” properly.