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Yes, it has an invisible "shadow prompt" that gets sent to it when you start a session. It looks something like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments

• chlorion 3y ago
  That makes sense, there has to be some level of human written responses for specific things, like when you ask it about a controversial topic that it refuses to answer, it gives you some canned response about how it won't answer that, and that very obviously isn't what language models do naturally. For these cases there has to be some sort of pre-programmed human generated reply! It's interesting that other people don't seem to agree with the idea that it has some pre-programmed responses, I am curious as to what they think is going on here.