My impression was that the quoted text is only a part of the pre-prompt. I've seen cases where ChatGPT gives a length in the order of thousands of words for the

My impression was that the quoted text is only a part of the pre-prompt. I've seen cases where ChatGPT gives a length in the order of thousands of words for the "conversation so far". Here are a couple (questionable) sources indicating the pre-prompt is much longer: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/zuhkvq/comment/j1kb48n/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/zuhkvq/comment/j1k... https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/11ct5zd/chatgpt_reveals_its_own_preprompt_changelog_and/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/11ct5zd/chatgpt_re... Edit: I was struggling a bit with the best jargon to refer to the "pre-prompt"; apparently OpenAI refers to it as the "system message" (contrasted with the "user message") - https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/chat/instructing-chat-models https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/chat/instructing-cha...