How exactly does File Search work in ChatGPT? Is it always necessary to enable it?

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ChatGPT is not the API.

ChatGPT is OpenAI’s product at chatgpt.com

There’s enough here that I think you indeed might be talking about the API, and internal tools of the “Assistants” API endpoint.

If you don’t have a tool enabled, the the AI isn’t going to spend time writing a tool call and then waiting for a search to be performed.

Your question, I answered pretty elaborately yesterday.

File_search with max num results

You have a good question, as this file_search tool and the vector store database is offered without a whole bunch of information about the applications it is useful for. However, the application you might be thinking about is a bit unclear, but it sounds like this might not be the right solution for you. The way it works: Documents are uploaded to the file storage. Then you create a vector store. One of the parameters of a vector store is how many tokens that the data resulting from document…