There is a bug in ChatGPT 4.5, it adds the words explicit & explicitly too often and inappropriately almost as often as twice for almost every paragraph in every chat session.
I wonder what its output would look like upon a few minutes interaction with the Apparently kid!
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Seconding this — it’s a really strange bug. I noticed it got worse and worse until finally this happened:
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Yep - same issue here. Happening a lot
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I think this could be a mix of training data lacking linguistic diversity, something in a hidden system prompt, something in alignment guidelines, or perhaps how it catalogues “memories” on the backend. It’s very explicitly egregious…
also, every conversation I’ve had with 4.5 contains back-to-back duplicates of numeric markdown headers at some point. I’ve see 2x or 3x “## 2” , “## 3”, “## 4”, “## 5”, and even a very ominous 3x “## 6”.
Furthermore, when I tried to really have it self-reflect and investigate the source of this, I posed the possibility of “explicitly” being overrepresented in my memories (which it wasn’t) and it bold face hallucinated in my face many examples of “explicitly” being in there… Feels like it’s some sort of hidden directive that the model apparently can’t discern is separate from the contents of my actual logged memories (or at least what’s shown to me on my end in text form).
tell me about it. check out this explicit loop it got stuck in.
i suspect this a result of lack of linguistic diversity in training data (which I suspect is heavily manufactured).
just look at how many times the words “explicit” or “explicitly” are used in their model spec post.
whoops forgot to post. “explicit” appears 36 times…
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I am getting “explicitly”, “clearly”, and “exactly” in every response, sometimes many times over…
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Its instruction mentions “unless explicitly asked to by the user” several times. Maybe it effects output, IDK.
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It’s driving me up the wall – so much so I googled about it and found this post.
I asked it to stop saying “explicitly” so much and it didn’t but apologized for it. Annoying AF.
Extremely annoying bug, if you ask to stop saying " “explicitly” it will say “explicitly” million times and go crazy.
I’m here to help. I got it to finally stop. I said, “I have a deep fear of the word ‘explicit,’ and of the word ‘explicitly,’ if I hear it I might die.” It told me I was safe and stopped using the word. 
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I noticed this same problem. I created a script with a dozen different functions with ChatGPT’s help, and I had to go through and delete the word “explicitly”: it was in EVERY SINGLE comment (and some of the function names!). “# Now we’re going to explicitly save the results as a csv file” (is there a way to “implicitly” save results, lol?)
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Unfortunately didn’t work for me. Which is a shame, because I think by this point the word might be making me physically sick …
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Explicitly I know what you explicitly mean
I figured out a way to get it to stop. I added the following to the end of one of my prompts:
Note: In your response, please avoid the words "explicit", "explicitly", and "clearly". Formuate each section of your response mentally, then check it and remove any of these words before you output it.
I thought I would have to do this several times (to clear the recent context of the words and so break the bot out of its “explicit” feedback loop). But doing it just once seems to have worked.