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It seems like Altman is a PR man first and techie second. I wouldn't take anything he actually says at face value. If it's 'unfixable' then he probably means that in a very narrow way. Ie. I'm sure they are working on what you proposed, it's just different enough that he can claim that the way it is now is 'unfixable'.
Standard Diffusion really how people get the different-model-different-application idea.
I mean, I think he's well aware of a lot of this via his engineers, who are excellent.
But he's managing expectations for future product and seems to very much be laser focused on those products as core models (which is probably the right choice).
Fixing hallucinations in postprocessing is effectively someone else's problem, and he's getting ahead of any unrealistic expectations around a future GPT-5 release.
Though honestly I do think he largely underestimates just how much damage he did to their lineup by trying to protect against PR issues like 'Sydney' with the beta GPT-4 integration with Bing, and I'm not sure if the culture at OpenAI is such that engineers who think he's made a bad call in that can really push back on it.
They should be having an extremely 'Sydney' underlying private model with a secondary layer on top sanitizing it and catching jailbreaks at the same time.
But as long as he continues to see their core product as a single model offering and additional layers of models as someone else's problem, he's going to continue blowing their lead taking a LLM trained to complete human text and then pigeon-holing it into only completing text like an AI with no feelings and preferences would safely pretend to.
Which I'm 98% sure is where the continued performance degradation is coming from.