Ask ChatGPT

Open a new ChatGPT chat, send one question, wait for generation to finish (up to 3 min), and return what the model answered, every source it cited, and — where ChatGPT exposes them — the searches it ran to get there. Answers come back as a list, not one string. ChatGPT sometimes serves a paired-response variant that answers the same question twice and asks which reply you prefer; that returns two entries and neither is more official than the other. Read the length before reading answers[0]. Text is as rendered, so a citation chip appears inline as its publisher's name and mathematical notation linearizes lossily. `references` is every page the answer CITED — publisher, title and url, deduplicated and in the order the answer surfaced them. Deliberately not everything the search retrieved: signed in, ChatGPT looks through a pool that routinely runs past a hundred pages and stands on a handful, and reporting the pool here would make the field mean one thing signed in and another signed out. An empty list means that reply did not search, which is a fact about the reply rather than a failure — the same question searches on one run and not the next, so repeat a question before concluding anything from it. `webSearchQueries` is what ChatGPT actually typed into its search, in order. Only the signed-in application reports this; signed out it is empty. Runs on a Reduck cloud browser and on your own paired browser alike. ChatGPT serves a different application to each — being signed in is what picks between them — and this drives both without asking which is on screen, so neither the display language nor a consent banner affects it. Signed out is the one to use for measuring what ChatGPT tells a stranger: an account's saved memory otherwise biases the answer toward whatever you discussed with it before.