# OpenAI — WebGPT: Improving the factual accuracy of language models through web browsing

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2021-12-16T08:00:00+00:00
- Category: research-paper
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://openai.com/index/webgpt
- Record: https://forck.live/items/921-webgpt-improving-the-factual-accuracy-of-language-models-through-web-browsing
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API
- Models affected: GPT-3

OpenAI fine-tuned GPT-3 to improve factual accuracy by enabling it to browse the web.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://openai.com/index/webgpt:

> We’ve fine-tuned GPT-3 to more accurately answer open-ended questions using a text-based web browser.

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