Other chatbots have to query secondary data to answer.
The question goes to the assistant, which searches what has been published; four kinds of source each hold a different slice of the voter file; the answer is stitched from those fragments.
“How many registered voters ages 18–34 are in this district?”
ChatGPT, Claude, or other general AI tool — answering from whatever it can find.
- Outdated news report
- Partisan advocacy group
- Biased campaign memo
- Random think-tank summary
Shaped by whichever outdated or one-sided sources the bot happened to find — not by the file.
Every step is a selection. Each source publishes the slice of the file that serves its story; the assistant can only stitch those slices together.
- Secondhand
- Selected by others
- Often out of date