A language model's knowledge is stored in its weights, the numeric parameters fixed during training. That training ends at a cutoff date, and only text present before that cutoff shaped the weights. Documents written after the cutoff, or kept private inside an organization, were never part of training, so the model has no representation of them at all.
How AI Answers Questions About Documents It Never Learned
Why the Model Cannot Answer From Your Documents Alone
Knowledge Frozen at a Cutoff
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So where did that answer come from? Not from your document. Everything the model actually knows is stored in its weights, the numeric parameters fixed while it was being trained.
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