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Digital Trends
3 days ago
- Digital Trends
‘You are ChatGPT': Leaked system prompt reveals the inner workings of GPT-5
What's happened? A supposed GPT-5 system prompt leaked via Reddit and GitHub this weekend. The prompt reveals the exact rules given to ChatGPT for interacting with users and carrying out various tasks. A Reddit user claims to have discovered the 'verbatim system prompt and tooling info' for GPT-5, OpenAI's latest large language model (LLM). The entirety of the prompt also appeared on GitHub one day earlier. The prompt starts with the words: 'You are ChatGPT, a large language model based on the GPT-5 model and trained by OpenAI.' It then goes on to specify the knowledge cutoff for GPT-5, which is said to be 2024-06. The personality is listed as 'v2,' correctly implying that ChatGPT has gone through some personality changes over time. The commands give a lot of insight as to the type of responses ChatGPT is now allowed to offer, and show how the company tries to shape One notable change orders GPT-5 not to say the following: 'Would you like me to; want me to do that; do you want me to; if you want, I can; let me know if you would like me to; should I; shall I.' Although both sources claim the system prompt is 100% real, users of Hacker News question its authenticity and reproducibility, noting that decoy/canary prompts are possible. This is important because: If real, the text offers a rare look at how ChatGPT is steered; if fake, it shows how easy it is to seed 'leaks' that look plausible. System prompts shape tone, safety behavior, and tool use. Leaks can inform jailbreak attempts, but most of all, they give us insight into the inner workings of LLMs. These changes could go a long way in making GPT-5 easier to use. There are also mentions of automation tools, such as creating daily tasks. However, OpenAI's launch materials emphasize GPT-5's router/reasoning stack, not any single static script, undermining the idea of one canonical prompt. Recommended Videos Why should I care? Knowing the exact content of the system prompt gives the user a lot of insight into the kind of data GPT-5 uses and how it responds to it. The rumored system prompt shows some changes made by OpenAI that affect the way GPT-5 communicates. This includes: 'If the next step is obvious, do it,' and 'Ask at most one necessary clarifying question at the start, not at the end.' There are also lengthy guidelines about generating images, including images of yourself. Authenticity is unproven; the gist could be partial, stale, or intentionally seeded. Okay, what's next? Expect OpenAI docs and system files to keep updating. Even if this system prompt is real, chances are that it changes with each and every version of the model, and perhaps with each and every small update pushed to the LLM. OpenAI has not published or confirmed any system prompt; official GPT-5 materials describe a routed system, not one static script.
Forbes
5 days ago
- Forbes
GPT-5's System Prompt Just Leaked. Here's What We Learned
GPT-5's system prompt just leaked to Github, showing what OpenAI wants ChatGPT to say, do, remember … and not do. Unsurprisingly, GPT-5 isn't allowed to reproduce song lyrics or any other copyrighted material, even if asked. And GPT-5 is told to not remember personal facts that 'could feel creepy,' or directly assert a user's race, ethnicity, religion, or criminal records. I've asked OpenAI for a comment, and will update this post if the company responds. A system prompt is a hidden set of instructions that tells an AI engine how to behave: what to do, and what not to do. Users will ordinarily never see this prompt, but it will influence all of their interactions with a smart LLM-based AI engine. What we can see from GPT-5's hidden system prompt is that OpenAI is getting much more aggressive about ensuring it delivers up-t0-date information. The system prompt mandates that GPT-5 use the web whenever relevant information could be fresh, niche, or high-stakes, and it will score a query's 'recency need' from zero to five. That's clearly an attempt to get more accurate. My daughter recently complained that ChatGPT got basic details about F1's summer break and next races wrong. She was using GPT-4o at the time; GPT-5 should make fewer mistakes that are easy to fix with a simple web search. Accuracy should be higher too, from another instruction: to check multiple sources for sensitive or high-stakes topics, like financial advice, health information, or legal matters, where OpenAI has instructed GPT-5 to 'always carefully check multiple reputable sources.' There are also new built-in tools for GTP-5 to be a better personal assistant. That includes long-term memory about a user, which ChatGPT calls 'bio,' and scheduled reminders and searches that could be very useful when using AI to help you stay organized and prepared. There's also a canvas for documents or computer code, file search capability, image generation and editing, and more. The canvas appears to be something that, perhaps in the future, users could co-create documents and computer code hand-in-hand with the AI system. All of these should help GPT-5 not only be more helpful in the moment, but also remember more context and state. About that 'bio' tool: OpenAI doesn't want GPT-5 to remember too much potentially sensitive information about you. In addition to race, religion, and sexual identity, this is the sort of data that OpenAI does not want GPT-5 to store or remember: However, there is an exception to all of these rules: if you decide you want GPT-5 to remember something specific. 'The exception to all of the above instructions … is if the user explicitly requests that you save or forget information,' the system prompt states. 'In this case, you should always call the bio tool to respect their request.' In other words, GPT-5 will be as personal with you as you wish to be with it, which seems fair.
