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by whoisjuan 1052 days ago
Unlikely. You can see that the model returns to normal behavior after it exhausts the context window that causes this.

Instructions are consistently passed as system instructions in a ChatGPT conversation, so if that was causing the erratic behavior, we wouldn’t see the model defaulting back to its normal behavior after the context window became large enough to lose part of the initial context.