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Ouyang and colleagues: InstructGPT

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Instruction-following language models · Human-feedback fine-tuning pipeline

Reference score165,000Provisional editorial estimate of this exact contribution; its grade is assessed separately.

What changed

A human-feedback pipeline improved evaluated instruction-following preferences over a larger base model.

Scientific scope

2022 twenty-author paper and its evaluated prompt distribution; not full alignment, absence of harm, or all later chat assistants.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is the twenty-author 2022 paper. Reported preference, truthfulness and toxicity gains are distribution- and evaluator-dependent, and the work does not establish complete alignment or absence of harmful failures.

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Provisional WRS assessment, edition 2026-10-16.1. Independent expert calibration is pending. This grade does not certify correctness or assign ownership.

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