ChatGPT Plus users with the Link Reader plugin can paste a paywalled article URL and have the plugin read and summarize it, or request the full text in chat. The speaker suggests this is why OpenAI removed browsing from GPT-4.
Hey you. Here's a secret trick that allows you to get around every paywalled article on the Internet. Now look, I'm not advocating for this, but sharing what I find is what I do. I'm talking about Link Reader, a ChatGPT plugin that is capable of understanding and summarizing information from various digital resources. And one thing it does is it can look at web pages. And when I say web pages, I mean all web pages, including those behind a paid wall. So with ChatGPT Plus, I can go to the plugin store, install Link Reader, and here's an example article from Fortune. As you can see, I'm not allowed to read this. Take the link, read and summarize this article for me. Please link to the article. I always like to be polite with my AIs. Hit enter and there you have it. And one more thing. You can always say please copy the entire text of the article into this chat and voila, the full article for free. And this is the exact reason they removed the browsing function from GPT4, but they forgot Link Reader.
