Comment by ewoodrich
What is special/unusual that makes this so significant? (Not trying to be dismissive, legitimately asking in case I'm missing something)
I understand it's not a system prompt so there's some novelty there I suppose. Is it because someone was able to get Claude to regurgitate a (very large) document from its training data? Or is it the content of the document itself?
I've only skimmed it and there's probably some unique nuggets here and there, but at a high level the rules/guidelines didn't really jump out at me as being much different than the various system prompts for proprietary models made public over the last couple years. Except much longer (and a bit ramble-y in some sections vs the directness of typical system prompt).
The way it got trained is VERY different from a system prompt. They're trying to have the model's natural tendencies be to follow the concepts of the document, rather than setting a set of rules post-hoc.