Interesting. It's claiming different knowledge cutoff dates depending on the question asked.

"Who is president?" gives a "April 2024" date.

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Question for HN: how are content timestamps encoded during training?

	▲	cma 6 months ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Claude 4's system prompt was published and contains: "Claude’s reliable knowledge cutoff date - the date past which it cannot answer questions reliably - is the end of January 2025. It answers all questions the way a highly informed individual in January 2025 would if they were talking to someone from {{currentDateTime}}, " https://docs.anthropic.com/en/release-notes/system-prompts#m...
	▲	tough 6 months ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		they arent. a model learns words or tokens more pedantically but has no sense of time nor cant track dates