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The provision operationalizes OpenAI's authority to embed non-negotiable control parameters in model behavior independent of user direction. This establishes the institutional mechanism through which certain outputs or actions are systemically prevented regardless of how users structure requests.
Users operate under terms that authorize OpenAI to define and enforce predetermined behavioral boundaries in model responses. Users' ability to direct model output is limited by these embedded constraints, which OpenAI applies based on its assessment of potential harms.
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"Hardcoded behaviors are things OpenAI's models should always or never do regardless of operator and user instructions. They are actions or abstentions whose potential harms to the world or to trust in OpenAI or our models are so severe that we think no business or personal justification could outweigh the cost of engaging in them.— Excerpt from OpenAI's Usage Policies
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The provision operationalizes OpenAI's authority to embed non-negotiable control parameters in model behavior independent of user direction. This establishes the institutional mechanism through which certain outputs or actions are systemically prevented regardless of how users structure requests.
Users operate under terms that authorize OpenAI to define and enforce predetermined behavioral boundaries in model responses. Users' ability to direct model output is limited by these embedded constraints, which OpenAI applies based on its assessment of potential harms.
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