OpenAI Debuts SearchGPT AI Search Engine

OpenAI today introduced SearchGPT, a prototype of AI search features that are designed to provide "fast and timely answers" combined with "clear and relevant sources."

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SearchGPT is available to a small group of users and publishers at the current time, with OpenAI seeking feedback on the product. The prototype is temporary at the current time, but "best" of the features will be integrated into ChatGPT in the future.

OpenAI designed SearchGPT to pair conversational capabilities with real-time information with the web, which the company says can make it faster and easier to find what you're looking for. SearchGPT is able to respond to questions with up-to-date information from the web. SearchGPT is able to answer follow-up questions in a conversational manner, with shared context included with each additional query.


OpenAI says that it is committed to a "thriving ecosystem of publishers and creators" and that it wants to help users discover publisher sites. Responses that SearchGPT provides have in-line, named attribution and links so users are aware where information is coming from, plus there's a sidebar with additional source links.

Publishers are able to manage how they appear in SearchGPT, but OpenAI says that SearchGPT is "about search" and separate from training generative AI models. Sites can be surfaced in search results even if they've opted out of generative AI training.

Those interested in testing out SearchGPT can join OpenAI's waitlist.

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Top Rated Comments

AustinIllini Avatar
9 months ago
No wonder google is actively crapping itself.
Score: 25 Votes (Like | Disagree)
tweaknmod Avatar
9 months ago
This kind of thing is really interesting in that the fundamental business models of how the Internet works are going to need to change.

Right now, most informational or content generating websites survive based on advertising revenue.

These kinds of advanced search engines scrape content from the websites and present the information directly within the UI. That means that while the sources are often included the user rarely clicks on them, and therefore they rarely see the advertisements which keep the lights on at that website.

In the long term, this means that there will be fewer websites who are able to survive because there are fewer eyeballs on the advertisements within their websites.

Does this mean that search engines will pay those websites directly for access to their content?

Will websites unify into a larger body, which can then sell collective access to these search engines?

Will we all fight to the death in the Colosseum for the entertainment of our glorious, artificially intelligent overlords?

I obviously don’t know the answer to any of these questions. All I know is that I love robots and I respect artificial intelligence greatly, and would very much appreciate being one of the survivors of their glorious uprising.

In all seriousness, I just find this stuff fascinating.
Score: 22 Votes (Like | Disagree)
stinksroundhere Avatar
9 months ago

This kind of thing is really interesting in that the fundamental business models of how the Internet works are going to need to change.

Right now, most informational or content generating websites survive based on advertising revenue.

These kinds of advanced search engines scrape content from the websites and present the information directly within the UI. That means that while the sources are often included the user rarely clicks on them, and therefore rarely the advertisements keep the lights on at that website.
Three letters.

RSS.

Data brokers and spam ad firms did everything they could to kill your RSS feeds.

If we can destroy their business that's fine by me.

The GPT search engine won't give you the full article anyway. There will be a 'Read more' button to send you to the sites.
Score: 9 Votes (Like | Disagree)
GMShadow Avatar
9 months ago
The first search engine where all the results are wrong.
Score: 9 Votes (Like | Disagree)
klasma Avatar
9 months ago

What makes you think they're not profitable?
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/why-openai-could-lose-5-billion-this-year

Expenses of $8.5B vs. only $2.5B of projected revenue this year.
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
sw1tcher Avatar
9 months ago

OpenAI today introduced SearchGPT, a prototype of AI search features that are designed to provide "fast and timely answers" combined with "clear and relevant sources."
Whoa! A prototype that's compatible with Firefox ('https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apple-maps-now-available-on-the-web.2432149/?post=33280395#post-33280395').
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)