Microsoft Corp has integrated a cousin of ChatGPT, start-up OpenAI’s artificial intelligence-powered chat technology, into Bing. Photo: Tribune News Service
Microsoft threatens to restrict access to Bing’s internet-search data to rival companies providing AI-powered online search tools
- Microsoft has told at least two licensee firms that using its Bing search index to feed their AI chat tools violates the terms of their contract
- Bing’s search index – a map of the internet that can be quickly scanned in real time – is licensed by Microsoft to other firms that offer web search
Microsoft Corp has integrated a cousin of ChatGPT, start-up OpenAI’s artificial intelligence-powered chat technology, into Bing. Photo: Tribune News Service