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I asked ChatGPT to emulate various OS's, including Linux and DOS. On a linux emulation, I had it curl whatsmyip.com. This bit was in the response:

    <span id="ipv4">35.230.98.61</span>

That's a google property. I wonder if it was trained on google's cloud.

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Or, more likely, it made up a plausible IP address.

The curls have returned two distinct IPs. Both are google's. How probable is that for a plausible guess? Run the experiment yourself. There was an article a while back that shows the prompt preamble to get you going. See what you get.

ChatGPT does not actually execute commands. The IP is in some text dataset and it returned that.

“ .. trained on .. “ ^

["Overall, the specific details of the dataset used to train GPT-3 are not publicly disclosed, so it is not possible to say for certain whether interactive sessions by trainers were used in its creation." - the horse's mouth]

As I just said elsewhere it's not going to "run curl commands" in training time. it's trained on a corpus of public data, it's not running commands at all

Noticed this as well. Just like you can ask it for showing `uname -a` and others. The results tend to vary given the temperature of the result and just seem to invent realistic bits of data from the one it noticed in training (e.g., Stack Overflow ?).

The training technique doesn't require internet access as well, it's not going to give you the IP it used during training.

Very funny tho.

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