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simonw: labs lean on search but hide the index

What's this about?

Simon Willison points out that both Anthropic and OpenAI ship products that depend heavily on web search, yet both obscure the underlying search index the model is actually querying.

Why it matters

767 likes. If you can't see what index grounds an answer, you can't fully judge or reproduce it — a transparency gap that matters as more products route through model-driven search.
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