Content Behind Paywalls In Bing Chat?

By RK Desk

There is some apprehension and assumption on the internet that Microsoft Bing is providing content behind paywall and using such content to furnish answers in Bing Chat.

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Here is one thread referring to the Bing Chat referencing and quoting content behind a paywall to supply an answer for Bing Chat:

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There can be possibilities why Bing was able to access this content i.e.: (1) Possibly the content was open for a period of time where it was not behind a paywall and Bing indexed it?

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(2) The content creator/provider is offering this paywalled content to Bingbot without a paywall.

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This means technically, the content might now be behind a paywall for users but not for search engines so Bingbot crawled it.

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There is no confirmation shared by Bing yet, stay tuned to know further updates

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