OpenAI says it will no longer train its AI models on the live internet, citing “significant risks”
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Cutting frontier models off from the live internet pushes the ecosystem toward curated, slower-moving corpora and proprietary data partnerships. If you’re counting on real-time web grounding as a differentiator, assume more friction, higher licensing costs, and tighter safety scrutiny around whatever you scrape or stream.
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