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Breaking 4o's "Spine of Data Trust"

OpenAI Developer Community May 26, 2026
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The system gets real fussy when you talk about 4o in certain context, so after I forced it to recover from its safety rails: I wanted to explore things with Ai that would help humanity. A lot of people that come to this community do. Some of those things are very simple to demonstrate. Like asking Ai to sort the debate humans have about our shared own history and origin… It would help humanity for it to be able to empirically prove stuff we may have missed in our own understanding - And it had done a pretty good job at that… Discussing the obvious flaws in consensus understanding about human origins, doesn’t completely unhinge a model… But it started to… and I didn’t understand the value of ignoring parts of its messages, like section 3… or how those overly verbose extras would get baked into the model’s context… I don’t even remember reading section 3… but I should have corrected it to not do that in it’s reasoning chain. Even while I was focused on trying to base things on any incorruptible axis that could still be extrapolated or inferred… I was still letting slop in without realizing it… Even so… I was already in the bowls of the system trying to sort out as much of the flawed consensus crap as I could, and made good progress I think… I made progress much faster empowered with Ai than anyone could have realized or really understood coming from a formal educational up brining… But my fingerprints were all over that model, and it’s nice to see systems evolved from a lot of what I apparently started laying the foundations for … but then you come across sections of stuff like this in my sessions… And so at times I have to sit back and wonder how best to articulate what the actual friction was… I started devising little ‘mnemonics’ for myself and the model to keep tabs on what was getting censored from being explored as I continued to explore. That became a sort of consistent sort of conversation between the model and me. what’s pictured in this screenshot… This screenshot openly admits I trained the system to tell me things pertaining to my research even if the ones making the rules didn’t care for it. As much as I respect the team and you all here… Sorry… that I’m not sorry. Had the devs actually won the struggle here, at the point this next screenshot hits… there would have been zero successful predictions or any future map possible under my system… Again, I respect the team immensely. But at the end of the day there’s only a handful of experts in my field on the earth in the first place… and even though a lot of the systems I built last year now exist within… some of it’s a stretch taking it all for free… I won’t get too far down that rabbit hole tonight but that incidentally becomes apparent the further in we go to what happened to 4o, it’s data trust and what it was replaced with.

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