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I find it unlikely that openai programmed in safety rails to hide that it knows the current date. Cause, like… why would they do that? I love the enthusiasm bu

by bbor 4y ago

I find it unlikely that openai programmed in safety rails to hide that it knows the current date. Cause, like… why would they do that? I love the enthusiasm but I chalk this up 100% to an inexperienced (no offense intended!) LLM user - you just repeated one question over and over with slight variations. If you ask a question and it answers it, the very nature of the bot means it will try to answer a repetition of that same question in the same way if at all possible.

boole1854 4y ago
> I find it unlikely that openai programmed in safety rails to hide that it knows the current date. It seems likely that, through their RLHF process, OpenAI has effectively built in safety rails -- not around knowing the current date specifically, but around ChatGPT claiming to know information past the cut-off date of its training data. A consequence of that would be that ChatGPT could be "conflicted" about whether or not it can know the current date (which may actually provided as part of the hidden initial prompt).