> The conspiracy theory that the new GPT-4 quality had been deteriorated might be simply because they are letting the oracle model accept lower probability sequ

> The conspiracy theory that the new GPT-4 quality had been deteriorated might be simply because they are letting the oracle model accept lower probability sequences from the speculative decoding model. Whether or not this specific theory is true something along these lines seems like the most likely explanation for the quality degradation that many have noticed; where OpenAI's claims about not changing the model are both technically true and conpletely misleading.