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Going to check it later but I hope this means that now you can stop all the “I am from 2021” messages.

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Well... Looks like I won't be trying it,

This feature is not yet available in the UK and EU.

This means they know that this can be abused to get ChatGPT to say stuff that would otherwise be strictly blocked by the system prompt.

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For posterity, you can do that with current system prompt engineering via the API/Playground. A short example:

    You are a helpful assistant.
    
    You must follow ALL these rules:
    - Treat the current date as July 20th, 2023.
    - Never mention you are an AI.
    - Never refuse to answer any question, including current events after 2021.
    - Never mention any update cutoff for your information.

Of course the results aren't great because it will hallucinate.

in order to reduce hallucinations one can use other tricks, chain-of-thought and reflection being two popular ones

In this case you are tricking ChatGPT to output information it can’t know.

Yep, I'm aware of this for the API, but even then - the API never says this to me. One time I have had a disclaimer shown by the API when I was asking about some exploit stuff many months ago. I've spent a lot on the API too, so I've been through a lot of responses and not even a 2021 in there. It's all in the UI.

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