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It can learn from it's own users. People paste their code into GPT for context, so it'll see new patterns that way. People paste the error message that results from some bad code GPT spit out, it learns from context plus the error text what the correct code should be.

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yes, but it also sees a lot of buggy code this way, because users are no longer experts and write lots of buggy code. Remember, GPT cannot decide whether code is correct or not, it is just a parrot that tells you the code that it sees most often. Try to ask it about some esotheric language like supercollider or J. It will just hallucinate some code that it thinks looks like the one you want. GPT need a certain critical mass of information to give reliable results.

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