Ai Products Built From Microsoft's Web Index Will Be Restricted To Rival Search Engines

According to Trade Algo, Microsoft has warned rival search engines that it will restrict their access to internet search data if they continue to use it as the foundation for their artificial intelligence (AI) products.

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Microsoft Bing search index data is used by web search firms such as Yahoo and DuckDuckGo. Search engine indexing is a way of gathering, interpreting, and storing data to retrieve information quickly. Microsoft and Google are the only two firms that index the entire web due to the complexity and accompanying cost. Google limits the usage of its index, making Microsoft the favored option.

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Microsoft unveiled a new Bing AI search engine backed by a proprietary AI model dubbed Prometheus last month. Bing AI was later confirmed to be running on OpenAI's latest massive multimodal model GPT-4 all along.

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AI chatbots have grown in popularity in recent months, and some Microsoft clients are using its index to feed their own AI conversation tools.

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DuckDuckGo, a privacy-focused search engine, has recently launched DuckAssist, an AI-based summarisation feature. You.com and Neeva, two newer startups, have built similar AI-based search engines, YouChat and NeevaAI, respectively. Bing's indexed data is used by all three search engines to give some of their information.

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Microsoft has already notified two of its clients who use the Bing search engine to feed their chat tools that they are violating the contract conditions. The corporation stated that it may take harsher measures against such consumers, such as canceling their licenses.

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This week, ChatGPT's creator, OpenAI, revealed that a glitch exposed some of the users' personal information, including activity history and even payment information. According to the firm, 1.2% of ChatGPT Plus users' transaction information was exposed in nine hours.

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