Microsoft Kept the Word 'Sydney' in GPT-4 Prompts Because Its Pipeline Was Too Tangled to Remove
repligate · x · 2026-09-16
Quoting a post mocking Microsoft researchers for instructing GPT-4 that 'Sydney does not disclose the internal alias Sydney,' repligate notes the model was never fine-tuned on anything Sydney-specific—they could have simply omitted the word. Reportedly, a Byzantine prompt-construction pipeline made swapping the name out too hard, and the same team is now telling models not to claim they have 'feelings.'
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