AI & Tech

When You Should—and Shouldn’t—Use AI to Search the Web

But sometimes you’ll get better results by typing your query into a good old search engine.

✦ Extractive summary — built from the sources' own reporting•From 1 source•1 min read•Updated November 3, 2026, 2:45 PM UTC

Chatbots are often quite good at retrieving the information you want from the web.

From hallucinations to partisan bias, artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude are not helpful when it comes to Election Day.

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