Indeed. Just more evidence that this is indeed the system prompt.
For those who worked with the OpenAI APIs, it would seem obvious. The call to the API starts with several prompts with the user provided one being one of them. But most often you would want to put some "facts" into the other prompts, like the current date, maybe how the model should call itself, or maybe some "fact" about the freshness of the data the model was trained on. The model will not be able to guess the cutoff date on its own if it was not provided as one of the extra prompts.
Does it mean that in fact the knowledge cutoff was 2022-01? No. It might have knowledge about 2023 events in its training. But it does mean that one of the prompts most probably has these words in it.
For those who worked with the OpenAI APIs, it would seem obvious. The call to the API starts with several prompts with the user provided one being one of them. But most often you would want to put some "facts" into the other prompts, like the current date, maybe how the model should call itself, or maybe some "fact" about the freshness of the data the model was trained on. The model will not be able to guess the cutoff date on its own if it was not provided as one of the extra prompts.
Does it mean that in fact the knowledge cutoff was 2022-01? No. It might have knowledge about 2023 events in its training. But it does mean that one of the prompts most probably has these words in it.