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> "The most natural explanation to my mind was that my blog post made it into the new training data, but multiple knowledgeable friends assure me that there is no new training data." Bryan, are you 100% sure about this? I've seen ChatGPT reference things after 2021. Example confirmation: twitter.com/tszzl/statu… They might well be correc…
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> "The most natural explanation to my mind was that my blog post made it into the new training data, but multiple knowledgeable friends assure me that there is no new training data."
Bryan, are you 100% sure about this? I've seen ChatGPT reference things after 2021. Example confirmation: https://twitter.com/tszzl/status/1638655356346957824
They might well be correct that your blog post is entirely separate from the training data. But I've heard "the training data ends in 2021" point referenced a few times, and at least in that simple form, it doesn't seem to be the full story. And the results of a bet like this absolutely hinge on the precise details.