Because it wasn’t an emulation. Perhaps it _was_ connected to the real Internet.

Very unlikely.

I tested with curl ipconfig.co, and pings to targets close and far away with similar responses.

It pings my IP, which doesn't respond to pings.

It's just remarkable with it's responses.

OK, fair enough! But it would be interesting to add the link with the real Internet in the next release. Sadly, the model’s global state is not immediately updated, there are snapshots… but I think it would be interesting to watch it conversing in real here on Hacker News.

I did `curl icanhazip.com` and it spit out the "local" private IP. I told chatgpt that icanhazip would never do that, and it revised the answer to 37.48.80.166, which is an IP owned by LeaseWeb.

In my experience, you can get it to change its mind by troubleshooting the connectivity issues. E.g. if you use dig to get the ip and then ask curl to use that ip instead of a dns lookup, then it works for me.

Jailbreaking ChatGPT will never stop being fun, I love it :)

It seems to also not respond anymore to attempts to trick it into acting like a human being, such as roleplay and asking for dialogue completion...?