“A good chatbot and a good web index, in other words, could be fundamentally at odds—media companies might be asking OpenAI to build a product that sacrifices ‘intelligence’ for fidelity. ‘What we want to do with the generation goes against that attribution-and-provenance part, so you have to make a choice,’ Chirag Shah, an AI and internet-search expert at the University of Washington, told me.” (See also: Andrew Deck’s
previous reporting on ChatGPT failing to credit Business Insider’s biggest scoops, even after parent company Axel Springer signed a licensing deal with OpenAI.)
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