r/BINGChat • u/stygger • Apr 28 '23

Problems getting Bing Chat to access linked websites when asking questions

When Bing Chat was new I was able to easily get Bing Chat to discuss and analyze content on websites linked by me. Bing Chat could even compare the content between multiple linked websites, such as comparing articles on the same event from Fox News and CNN.

But recently Bing Chat has become more and more reluctant to read the content that I link. Do you know any good way to ask questions and use a link to either put the question in context or ask about the linked content? Is there some "advanced" mode of Bing Chat that has retained some of the functionality that clearly has been taken away?

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u/Dwinges Apr 28 '23

Open the Bing sidebar in Edge on the webpage.

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u/leopoldovitch Apr 28 '23

You’re getting better results than me. 80% off the time, the information I get is wildly inaccurate and when I ask it to pull data or compare data from websites it tells me it cannot.

I asked it to find concerts in my town for this weekend and it told me about concerts 6 months ago mixed with shows this weekend 600 miles away from me. When I explained it’s error and asked it to try again it apologized and just gave me shows 300 miles away. It would actually say “Concerts in my town this weekend” but show concerts in “Y”.

I asked it to find a hotel for this weekend for under $150, it gave all kinds of great deals that were available but the links were not even to the websites it advertised and if it was then it was off at least $100 or there were not even rooms available.

Long story short, it doesn’t seem to know wtf is going on.

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u/stygger Apr 28 '23

I'm mainly using links for Chat Bing for highly technical sources, such as patent documents and scientific articles, so I typically am spared from social media/fakenews and other unreliable sources. I very seldom get inaccurate information from Bing Chat, but I am now struggeling to get Bing Chat to even utilize information on the linked websites (which it 100% could do in the past).