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Re:Tell HN: ChatGPT cut off date now Jan 2022 by skilled on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @07:46AM (#37568604)
Going to reply to myself here to say that it does seem like there is definitely information from December/November 2021 available, like clear-cut facts.

I'm just curious why OpenAI didn't make an announcement or what's the deal here, wouldn't this warrant retraining the entire model?

Re:Tell HN: ChatGPT cut off date now Jan 2022 by dualityoftapirs on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @08:04AM (#37568753)
They probably won't share how they did it, but there's been a lot of research over the past 6 months showing how you don't have to retrain the entire model to add in new sources. I know nothing about this stuff, but my limited understanding from blog posts is it's easier than anyone had thought to add in new data to a pre-existing model.
Re:Tell HN: ChatGPT cut off date now Jan 2022 by skilled on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @08:05AM (#37568781)
Do you by any chance have any of these blog posts available for my own reference? If not you maybe someone else does, I don't recall seeing it but it sounds interesting.
Re:Tell HN: ChatGPT cut off date now Jan 2022 by circuit10 on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @09:43AM (#37569826)
Re:Tell HN: ChatGPT cut off date now Jan 2022 by rafaelero on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @11:39AM (#37571522)
I think there was a paper from Google showing that if you included 5% of your original dataset together with the new data during the finetuning then catastrophical forgetting didn't occur. Perhaps it's that simple.
Re:Tell HN: ChatGPT cut off date now Jan 2022 by formvoltron on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @08:15AM (#37568862)
they are working on including information up to 2025. now THAT will be a big announcement.
Re:Tell HN: ChatGPT cut off date now Jan 2022 by coding123 on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @10:15AM (#37570259)
Since gpt will be writing all the text, this is possible.
Re:Tell HN: ChatGPT cut off date now Jan 2022 by benob on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @10:59AM (#37570862)
This is so true.
Re:Tell HN: ChatGPT cut off date now Jan 2022 by whimsicalism on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @11:09AM (#37571017)
Chatgpt model is constantly training and it doesn’t require retraining the whole model.
Re:Tell HN: ChatGPT cut off date now Jan 2022 by skilled on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @11:33AM (#37571416)
Can you provide specifics?
Re:Tell HN: ChatGPT cut off date now Jan 2022 by whimsicalism on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @12:05PM (#37571979)
Only that openai has said they are constantly changing the chatgpt model.
Re:Tell HN: ChatGPT cut off date now Jan 2022 by skilled on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @12:10PM (#37572052)
Right...