On Wednesday, OpenAI published a blog post outlining the “philosophy and mechanics" behind its Model Spec—the document that shapes the behavior of ChatGPT, the world’s most widely used chatbot. The Model Spec is meant to be an “interface,” according to the blog post. It makes the intended behavior of the world’s most widely used chatbot explicit, so that researchers, policymakers, and the public can “read, inspect, and debate” it. The result is a 100-page document that defines how OpenAI’s