Send external to chatgpt 4o

I’m new to chatgpt 4, i sent an external link to gpt, and ask it “what the this news mention? And summarize news …” , but he refused and tell me do get in the link by myself.
I wonder the free version refuse my prompt, or if I pay to get gpt4o , it will help me get in link and help me summarize the news ?

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Hi there and welcome to the Forum!

ChatGPT can’t yet directly access links that you provide - this is the same for the free and subscription-based version.

What it can do is to perform a search via a search engine. Meaning you can give it a topic to perform research on and then it will return information from specific sources it has located during the search. However, you do not have direct control over which sources it uses. You can steer it somewhat through the search request but there is no guarantee that it will use your desired source.

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Hi, is there any tips that can lead gpt directly to the website I want? Like when we searching on Google, and want to search special site, we will use a prompt like → site:facebook …

In principle you can use this approach. You can even see that ChatGPT itself will use the website’s address for well-known sources in its search query. Whether the content is accessible by ChatGPT however depends on the individual websites. That said, ChatGPT can’t access Facebook as it requires login.