I guess I also am wondering when GPT requests your website to summarize, what agent shows up... And how long before people start to exploit that.

Ask and you shall receive: `Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; ChatGPT-User/1.0; +https://openai.com/bot`

I asked ChatGPT how the browser plug-in works recently (so, take this with a grain of salt) and it claimed there is no actual web connected search engine in use, instead it has a “simulated browser” connected to something like a vector database of a recent snapshot of large parts of the web captured by OpenAI. Seems odd when the Bing bot already connects to the real internet, but also seems like a weirdly contradictory thing for it to hallucinate.

I doubt that.

First, here is it’s prompt:

You have the tool browser with these functions:

search(query: str, recency_days: int) Issues a query to a search engine and displays the results.

click(id: str) Opens the webpage with the given id, displaying it. The ID within the displayed results maps to a URL.

quote(start: str, end: str) Stores a text span from an open webpage. Specifies a text span from the open webpage by a starting substring start and an ending substring end.

back() Returns to the previous page and displays it.

scroll(amt: int) Scrolls up or down in the open webpage by the given amount.

open_url(url: str) Opens the given URL and displays it.

Please render citations in this format: ​oaicite:{"index":0,"invalid_reason":"Malformed citation 【{message idx}†{link text}】"}​

Second, there is a paper on a very similar sounding tool from OpenAI: https://openai.com/research/webgpt

I would guess it is likely a version of WebGPT in plug-in form.

Edit: Just had it access an ngrok address I setup and the user agent is: `Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; ChatGPT-User/1.0; +https://openai.com/bot`