5 Conclusion and Next Steps
OpenAI has implemented various safety measures and processes throughout the GPT-4 development
and deployment process that have reduced its ability to generate harmful content. However, GPT-4
can still be vulnerable to adversarial attacks and exploits or, “jailbreaks,” and harmful content is
not the source of risk. Fine-tuning can modify the behavior of the model, but the fundamental
capabilities of the pre-trained model, such as the potential to generate harmful content, remain
latent. As capabilities and risks associated with them increase, it will become critical to achieve
extremely high degrees of reliability in these and other interventions; even now, it’s important to
complement these model-level mitigations with other interventions like use policies and monitoring,
as we discuss in the section on System Safety.
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