Governance & Safety

OpenAI rewrote its rules. The hard cases remain.

OpenAI changed its Model Spec, a guide to how its models should act. Zvi Mowshowitz reads its five stated values, including human control. He asks whether a limit set by a user can hold up against a later request. His view of the rules is not a test of models in use.

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Zvi Mowshowitz reads OpenAI’s revised Model Spec, a document that says how its models should act. He looks at five stated values, including human control. The text also covers oversight, ways to correct a system, and the order of instructions it should obey. His concern is about the hard cases. A rule may look clear in a simple example yet leave a later conflict unresolved. In particular, he asks whether a limit set by a user can survive a later request to ignore it. This is an argument about what the document says and leaves open. It is not a test of a model in use, and it cannot show how often a deployed system obeys those rules.

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Title
OpenAI Updates Its Model Spec
Author
Zvi Mowshowitz
Publication
Don't Worry About the Vase
Date
Tuesday, November 3, 2026