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What are the risks of training on GPT-4-generated data?

There are three primary risks associated with using GPT-4-generated data. First, there is a legal and contractual risk, as OpenAI’s terms of service prohibit using model outputs to train competing models. Second, the student model inherits the teacher’s failure modes without the teacher’s uncertainty calibration, leading to confident hallucinations in the same scenarios where the teacher model is prone to error. Third, GPT-4’s inherent style and safety filters shape the data distribution, which may not align with the specific requirements of your deployment context, effectively forcing a general-purpose assistant’s bias onto a specialized model.

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