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In the InstructGPT study, which answers did people prefer: a 1.3B RLHF model's or the 175B GPT-3's?

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  1. The small 1.3B RLHF model's answers
  2. The 175B GPT-3's answers
  3. Neither, they were rated equal

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  1. Ouyang et al., Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback (arXiv 2203.02155) arxiv.org/abs/2203.02155 Checked 2026-10-10.

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