Comment by patrickhogan1

My guess is that when a ChatGPT search is initiated, by a user, it crawls the source directly instead of relying on OpenAI’s internal index, allowing it to check for fresh content. Each search result includes sources embedded within the response.

It’s possible this behavior isn’t explicitly coded by OpenAI but is instead determined by the AI itself based on its pre-training or configuration. If that’s the case, it would be quite ironic.