It appears that GPT-4 has lost the capacity to view web links and images within 24 hours after it was made available to the public. It was allowed to view these for the first day after it was made available to the public. It seems that functionality has been disabled, and if you give Chat GPT-4 a prompt asking it to examine a link or do anything else that would require internet access, it will respond by saying that it hasn’t had internet access since 2021 and that it is an AI model that can only study text.
It’s possible that this is a bug that they are currently working to fix. At this point, we do not have any information. Do not be concerned if you do not understand why this solution is not working for you. At the time, it is occurring to each and every one of us.