Comment by rolisz
2 years ago
Not quite. The GPT4 offered through the chat completion API will answer questions without any special system prompts.
What these prompts do is try to do some extra steering of the chat model, on top of the steering done via RLHF.
Are you sure that the API injects prompts?
GPT4’s ability to answer questions without special system prompts can be entirely a product of training - not necessarily evidence of an injected prompt.
We're in agreement :)