When ChatGPT Search builds an answer, it can generate background web queries to find sources. A new report from AI search analytics firm Peec AI found that a large share of those background queries run in English, even when the original prompt was in another language.
Peec AI analyzed over 10 million prompts and 20 million fan-out queries from its platform data. Across all non-English prompts analyzed, the company reports that 43% of the fan-out steps were conducted in English.
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