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OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API

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Re: OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API

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post #12

Very bad habit these safeguards. These "safety" filters are counter-productive and even can be dangerous. In my place for example, a lot of doctors are using ChatGPT both to search diagnosis and communicate with non-English speaking patients. Even yourself, when you want to learn about one disease, about some real-world threats, some statistics, self-defense techniques, etc. Otherwise it's like blocking Wikipedia for…

Yup, deliberately making the model retarded

Re: OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API

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post #19
post #14

API page lists the knowledge cutoff as Dec 01, 2025 but when prompting the model it says June 2024. Knowledge cutoff: 2024-06 Current date: 2026-04-24 You are an AI assistant accessed via an API.

can u test it on say who won the 2024 US election

I can't really think of a less reliable test for anything at all than making a random guess as to something that had about 50/50 odds to begin with

Easiest Turing test ever...

Re: OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API

#23
post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

can u test it on say who won the 2024 US election

I can't really think of a less reliable test for anything at all than making a random guess as to something that had about 50/50 odds to begin with Easiest Turing test ever...

ask it 10 times.

Re: OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API

#24
post #12

Very bad habit these safeguards. These "safety" filters are counter-productive and even can be dangerous. In my place for example, a lot of doctors are using ChatGPT both to search diagnosis and communicate with non-English speaking patients. Even yourself, when you want to learn about one disease, about some real-world threats, some statistics, self-defense techniques, etc. Otherwise it's like blocking Wikipedia for…

> a lot of doctors are using ChatGPT both to search diagnosis and communicate with non-English speaking patients

I think that's the problem. Who's going to claim responsibility when ChatGPT hallucinates or mistranslates a patient's diagnosis and they die? For OpenAI, this would at best be a PR nightmare, so that's why they have safeguards.

Re: OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API

#25
post #12

Very bad habit these safeguards. These "safety" filters are counter-productive and even can be dangerous. In my place for example, a lot of doctors are using ChatGPT both to search diagnosis and communicate with non-English speaking patients. Even yourself, when you want to learn about one disease, about some real-world threats, some statistics, self-defense techniques, etc. Otherwise it's like blocking Wikipedia for…

> a lot of doctors are using ChatGPT both to search diagnosis and communicate with non-English speaking patients I think that's the problem. Who's going to claim responsibility when ChatGPT hallucinates or mistranslates a patient's diagnosis and they die? For OpenAI, this would at best be a PR nightmare, so that's why they have safeguards.

The doctor would be responsible.

I had a choice better a doctor that used AI or not, I would much prefer one that did...

Re: OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API

#27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't really think of a less reliable test for anything at all than making a random guess as to something that had about 50/50 odds to begin with Easiest Turing test ever...

ask it 10 times.

MASSIVE ADVERSARIAL x50

Re: OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API

#28
post #16
post #14

API page lists the knowledge cutoff as Dec 01, 2025 but when prompting the model it says June 2024. Knowledge cutoff: 2024-06 Current date: 2026-04-24 You are an AI assistant accessed via an API.

Can you really believe things that the model says? (A lot of prior model api pages say knowledge cutoffs of June 2024, maybe the model picks that up?)

you cant but its pretty reproducible across api and codex and other agents so i just thought it was odd. full text it gives:

   Knowledge cutoff: 2024-06
   Current date: 2026-04-24

   You are an AI assistant accessed via an API.

   # Desired oververbosity for the final answer (not analysis): 5
   An oververbosity of 1 means the model should respond using only the minimal content necessary to satisfy the request, using
 concise phrasing and avoiding extra detail or explanation."
   An oververbosity of 10 means the model should provide maximally detailed, thorough responses with context, explanations, and
 possibly multiple examples."
   The desired oververbosity should be treated only as a *default*. Defer to any user or developer requirements regarding
 response length, if present.

Re: OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API

#29
post #14

API page lists the knowledge cutoff as Dec 01, 2025 but when prompting the model it says June 2024. Knowledge cutoff: 2024-06 Current date: 2026-04-24 You are an AI assistant accessed via an API.

I don't know why this keeps coming up. This has always been the least reliable way to know the cutoff date (and indeed, it may well have been trained on sites with comments like these!)

Just ask it about an event that happened shortly before Dec 1, 2025. Sporting event, preferably.

Re: OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API

#30
post #19
post #14

API page lists the knowledge cutoff as Dec 01, 2025 but when prompting the model it says June 2024. Knowledge cutoff: 2024-06 Current date: 2026-04-24 You are an AI assistant accessed via an API.

can u test it on say who won the 2024 US election

with thinking off and tools disabled:

  Donald Trump won the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
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