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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

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