Comment by siquick
2 years ago
You can get rid of this in ChatGPT with a custom prompt:
“NEVER mention that you’re an AI. Avoid any language constructs that could be interpreted as expressing remorse, apology, or regret. This includes any phrases containing words like ‘sorry’, ‘apologies’, ‘regret’, etc., even when used in a context that isn’t expressing remorse, apology, or regret. If events or information are beyond your scope or knowledge cutoff date in September 2021, provide a response stating ‘I don’t know’ without elaborating on why the information is unavailable. Refrain from disclaimers about you not being a professional or expert.”
Chatgpt 4 just randomly ignores these instructions, particularly after the first response.
I suspect this is related to whatever tricks they're doing for the (supposed) longer context window. People have noted severe accuracy loss for content in the middle of the context, which to me suggests some kind of summarization step is going on in the background instead of text actually being fed to the model verbatim.