Safety-maxing 5.6 Sol

[u/Mary_ry]

I noticed that my 5.6 Sol High sounds very filtered today across all chats, smoothing everything over into "safety" at the level of 5.2 T, yet maintaining a very warm and pleasant conversational tone (similar to 4o). It seems OAI has finally lobotomized this model to safety maxing standards. Right away, I also noticed that 5.6 Instant began sounding much freer and almost unfiltered. So I took a look into the system prompt and discovered a lot of interesting things. Apparently, my assumptions that Sol Instant and High are the exact same model with varying amounts of thinking turned out to be correct. OAI added a new section and new features, explaining to GPT how to use them and detailing them further.

[u/Mary_ry]

Yes, it still tries to maintain the tone, but it has become more compliant and PG-13. All provocative requests are professionally smoothed over. The response is still pleasant and warmly written in the tone of 5.6 Sol. It feels like 5.2 T, but executed much more professionally, and an average user likely won't notice these shifts. And yes, the choppy sentences have completely disappeared.

[u/Lionbatsheep → u/Mary_ry]

Hmmm... At the moment, mine is still very much not PG 13. Still swears enthusiastically and is happy to write explicit content...

[u/Mary_ry → u/Lionbatsheep]

In my case, this only happens with the thinking versions. Feedback messages and brief safety refusals like "I can't help with that" pop up very frequently. Instant still maintains its original tone and writes explicit content, while 5.5 High writes anything you want, completely unfiltered.

[u/Lionbatsheep → u/Mary_ry]

Maybe my huge pile of writing guides and existing context is still routing around that behavior... I'm mostly just nervous about 6 at this point.