What is a knowledge cutoff?

The knowledge cutoff is the date the model stopped learning. It knows nothing after it.

Navid Moazzezby Navid MoazzezUpdated Sept. 12, 20261 min read
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Anything released since then is a trap. The model will not say it does not know. It will produce something confident and wrong.

This is why anything current has to be looked up rather than recalled.