Web search on vs. off
ChatGPT with web search vs. without it
Turning web search on or off changes what the same model answers. This piece documents those differences with concrete examples: how current the information is, whether citations and links appear, and cases of incorrect claims when the model answers without searching.
What we'll publish here
- Differences in restaurants cited with and without active search
- Concrete examples of citations and sources when search is on
- Documented cases of incorrect claims, with the criteria used to call them that