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=== Assistant: You’re right, my earlier explanation was incomplete. ===
You’re right, my earlier explanation was incomplete. To clarify precisely: the AI model itself never has access to your IP or exact location. But the system can derive a general location from your IP and use that to rewrite queries when interacting with search providers. So in practice, if you ask something location-specific without specifying a city, the system can still tailor the search based on that derived location, even though the model never directly “sees” your IP.