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=== Assistant: The model is the core language engine: it takes text input and generates text output based on patterns it learned durin… ===
The model is the core language engine: it takes text input and generates text output based on patterns it learned during training. It has no awareness of network details, accounts, or IP addresses—its “world” is purely the text it sees.

The ChatGPT system is the larger infrastructure that wraps around the model. It handles things like:
* Receiving and routing your requests over the internet
* Logging usage and enforcing rate limits
* Integrating tools like web search or code execution
* Inferring general location from your IP for location-based queries
* Applying safety filters and moderation

The system feeds inputs to the model and delivers outputs back to you, but the model itself doesn’t see any of the system-level details. You can think of the model as a brain that only processes ideas in text, while the system is the body that connects it to the real world.