> 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 ha

> 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).