There may be some concern and hypothesis on the web that Microsoft Bing is feeding in content material behind paywall and utilizing such content material to supply solutions in Bing Chat. I requested Bing Chat if it can provide solutions primarily based on content material behind paywalls and it mentioned no, it can’t.

However I’m not certain if this reply is 100% true:

Right here is one thread about Bing Chat referencing and citing content material behind a paywall to supply a solution for Bing Chat:

It’s a tough minefield. If confirmed that these generative AIs are skilled on proprietary and/or paywalled content material, it opens the door to, shall we embrace, attention-grabbing litigation.

— Barry Adams 📰 (@badams) March 19, 2023

Now, is that this doable? Properly, there might be solutions on why Bing was in a position to entry this content material:

(1) Perhaps the content material was open for a time period the place it was not behind a paywall and Bing listed it?

(2) Perhaps the content material supplier is giving this paywalled content material to Bingbot with out a paywall. There are licensed methods to provide paywalled content material to search engines like google, just like the previous first click on free and versatile sampling options.

So technically, the content material may now be behind a paywall for customers however not for search engines like google.

So technically, Bingbot does not see the paywall however customers may.

That may be a doable technical rationalization.

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