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

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.

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