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Inside our approach to the Model Spec
OpenAI released an updated version of its Model Spec, a public framework that defines how its AI models should behave across areas like instruction-following, safety boundaries, and conflict resolution through a "Chain of Command" hierarchy that prioritizes instructions from different sources. The company's accompanying evaluations showed genuine improvements in model alignment over time, though OpenAI acknowledged its production models don't yet fully reflect the spec, which is designed as both a transparency tool for public accountability and an internal coordination mechanism that gets updated based on deployment feedback and democratic input processes.
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