alt Hacker NewsAPI page lists the knowledge cutoff as Dec 01, 2025 but when prompting the model it says June 2024.
Knowledge cutoff: 2024-06
Current date: 2026-04-24
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htrp • yesterday at 7:21 PM
Can you really believe things that the model says? (A lot of prior model api pages say knowledge cutoffs of June 2024, maybe the model picks that up?)
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bakugo • yesterday at 7:45 PM
Models don't know what their cutoff dates are unless told via a system prompt.
The proper way to figure out the real cutoff date is to ask the model about things that did not exist or did not happen before the date in question.
A few quick tests suggest 5.5's general knowledge cutoff is still around early 2025.
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jumploops • yesterday at 10:07 PM
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I don't know why this keeps coming up. This has always been the least reliable way to know the cutoff date (and indeed, it may well have been trained on sites with comments like these!)
Just ask it about an event that happened shortly before Dec 1, 2025. Sporting event, preferably.