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NitpickLawyer · 10 days ago
> openai giving it instructions before me?

Uhhh, yes. It's in the devblogs. They call it prompt adherence hierarchy or something, where system instructions (oAI) > dev instructions (you) > user requests. They've been training this way specifically, and test for it in their "safety" analysis. Same for their -oss versions, so tinkerers might look there for a tinker friendly environment where they could probably observe the same kinds of behaviour.

irthomasthomas · 10 days ago
Please can you link me to the documentation on this.
NitpickLawyer · 10 days ago
Yeah, it's in the "gpt5 system card" as they call it now [1]. Page 9 has the details about system > dev > user.

1 - https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/8124a3ce-ab78-4f06-96eb-49ea29ffb...