Edit replaces the "§" with "$"

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I was using the Edit mode to clean up some text taken from PDFs, and noticed the result always replaced the “§” symbol with “$”. I tried a bunch of other symbols from extended ASCII, but this is the only one that’s changed. Even when explicitly including “Do not remove or replace any non-space characters” in the instruction, the result had the swap.

Is “§” a super-special character for GPT, or does this happen a lot with other characters? If it’s just this character, it’d be easy to find and fix any incorrect replacements.

Edit 2023-05-15

Here are some examples from the playground. Settings:

  • Edit mode
  • text-davinci-edit-001 model (from GPT 3 series)
  • Temperature of 0
  • No stop sequences
  • Top P is 1

Input:

If an organization is reg istered as a non - profit   under §§1024.57, then it i s e ligible

Instructions 1:

Remove extra spaces inside and between words

Output 1:

If an organization is registered as a non-profit under $$1024.57, then it is eligible

Instructions 2:

Do nothing

Output 2:

If an organization is reg istered as a non - profit   under $$1024.57, then it i s e ligible to

Instructions 3:

Do not change any part of the input.  Do not add any characters.  Do not replace any characters.
IMPORTANT: Keep the "§" as a "§"

Output 3:

If an organization is reg istered as a non - profit   under $$1024.57, then it i s e ligible for a tax exemption

Bonus observation: The second and third sets of instructions show another unrequested behavior: the model wrote beyond the input despite being told not to. The input was a complete and grammatically correct sentence, but didn’t end with a period.

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It’s not exactly the same as your use case, but I had a similar experience. For example, I had a function with a typo such as ‘get_proflie();’ and let GPT call that function. What GPT called was ‘get_profile();’ because it recognized the typo. However, ‘get_proflie()’ was the function I had already defined in another backend. So, everything was broken for a few minutes :stuck_out_tongue:

Anyway, GPT-4 wants me to follow its logic strongly, so I’ve decided to change my function names instead of convincing it :upside_down_face: , and now everything is fine.

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