Logan Kilpatrick (OpenAI). “The API does not just change without us telling you. The models are static there.”
That’s the official line on the ongoing questions concerning whether OpenAI’s models have been degrading in quality over the last few weeks and months.
Worth noting that this mentions the API but doesn’t mention ChatGPT itself, which I suspect gets model updates a lot more frequently than the models served through the API.
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