How to Connect ChatGPT to the Internet: Unleashing Online Capabilities
ChatGPT, a popular AI tool, offers Internet access exclusively to ChatGPT Plus members. With the integration of Bing Search, ChatGPT can now search the web for relevant information in real-time before responding to your query. However, this feature is only available to ChatGPT Plus members.
It is possible to receive AI-based responses from ChatGPT, Bing Chat, Google Bard, and Writesonic Chatsonic without paying for ChatGPT Plus. Additionally, the WebChatGPT and UseChatGPT.AI extensions can be used in combination with ChatGPT to retrieve AI-based responses. The main disadvantage of ChatGPT is that its models became outdated after September 2021.
In this article, we will show you how to enable internet access on ChatGPT and explore other options for obtaining AI-based responses in real-time.
ChatGPT Plus membership offers GPT-4 access, which utilizes a web-browsing plugin to query Bing Search for information that can be used for real-time responses. If you don’t have a ChatGPT Plus subscription, you won’t be able to access the internet. You can update your ChatGPT to ChatGPT Plus by clicking on the Upgrade button on the homepage.
When you upgrade to ChatGPT Plus, you must enable OpenAI’s web-browser plugin. From the homepage’s settings menu, activate the Web browsing toggle to enable web access for your queries. Once you have enabled web browsing, ChatGPT will automatically search for answers on the internet if it cannot find information based on its training data.
ChatGPT will now be able to read relevant information from various web pages and generate a response based on the data it has extracted. ChatGPT Plus allows access to more up-to-date information, but the response will also include citations from the web pages used in the data extraction.
Although ChatGPT Plus is the official way to access up-to-date information, other free sources can also be used. Bing Chat is available to everyone and also employs the GPT-4 model to access the internet in real-time.
Google provides Bard, which works similarly to Bing Chat. You can also use the WebChatGPT and UseChatGPT
