Spyglass: “A funny thing happened on the way to AI web browsers taking over the world: they’re now getting blocked left and right from doing the things that would make them useful. This is, to say the least, a problem. I first noticed it when OpenAI rolled out their ‘ChatGPT Atlas’ browser a couple weeks ago. In testing it out, I was trying to do one of the most obvious and straightforward use-cases: asking the embedded AI chatbot questions about the page I was visiting. The problem was that if the information happened to be on The New York Times you got an error message noting that “ChatGPT is unable to access the contents of this website”. Um, okay. This is obviously one of the largest sources of news and information in the world so yeah, that’s not great. Even more problematic is that they don’t tell you why you can’t access the content – even if, like myself, you’re a paying subscriber to NYT. You’d have to be up to date on your AI news – or read any number of recent NYT stories about AI where the disclaimer is repeated over and over again:

(The New York Times has sued OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming copyright infringement of news content related to A.I. systems. The two companies have denied the suit’s claims.)

There we go. Because these two sides can’t come to an agreement on terms (which NYT has done with other AI players, notably Amazon), the users are screwed. If you try to ignore the yellow warning label and ask to say, summarize the page anyway..”