Well if ChatGPT is speaking out of its model it has no idea about anything new in the last year or so. If it’s going to answer some question about voting today in Chicago and get an accurate and timely answer it has to basically run a search request and summarize the results.

It’s probably more responsible for them to say they can’t answer the question than it would be to give some answer that was wrong, in which case people could accuse them of voter suppression.