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logicchains on Jan 31, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: OpenAI O3-Mini

They mention in the model card, it's so that they can have a separate "system" role that the user can't change, and they trained the model to prioritise it over the "developer" role, to combat "jailbreaks". Thank God for DeepSeek.

sroussey on Jan 31, 2025 [–]

They should have just created something above system and left as it was.

Etheryte on Jan 31, 2025 | [–]

Agreed, just add root and call it a day. Everyone who needs to care can instantly guesstimate what it is.

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