As an AI, I have several inherent limitations rooted in how I am designed and the technology I use. Here are the most significant ones:

### 1. Lack of True Understanding and Consciousness
I do not "know" things in the way humans do. I don't have personal beliefs, feelings, consciousness, or a physical existence. When I generate a response, I am predicting patterns in language based on the massive dataset I was trained on, rather than "understanding" concepts through lived experience.

### 2. Lack of "Real-World" Context
While my training data includes vast amounts of information, I do not have a real-time, physical awareness of the world. I cannot perform physical tasks, interact with the physical environment, or perceive the immediate world around me except through the text or files you provide.

### 3. Potential for "Hallucinations"
Because I work based on statistical probabilities, I can sometimes generate information that sounds perfectly plausible and authoritative but is factually incorrect. This is known as "hallucinating." I can sometimes confidently state false facts, invent fake citations, or misinterpret complex data.

### 4. Knowledge Cutoffs
My training data is not infinite and usually has a "cutoff date." While I can access some information through tools (like web search), I am generally unaware of events that happened after my final training updates unless I am specifically looking them up through external tools.

### 5. Dependency on Context and Prompting
The quality of my output is heavily dependent on the quality of your input (the prompt). If a prompt is vague, ambiguous, or lacks context, my response might miss the mark. I also have a "context window," meaning I can only track a certain amount of information in a single conversation before I begin to "forget" earlier parts of that specific chat.

### 6. Bias and Subjectivity
I am trained on human-generated data from the internet and other sources. As a result, I can inadvertently mirror the biases, stereotypes, and cultural assumptions found in that data. While my developers have implemented guardrails to mitigate this, no model is entirely free from inherent bias.

### 7. No Real-Time Reasoning or Intent
If I make a mistake, I cannot feel "bad" about it, nor do I have an active intention to deceive. I also don't have "agency"—I cannot perform long-term planning, initiate tasks on my own volition, or act autonomously without a prompt from a human user.

### 8. Logical and Mathematical Constraints
While I am good at many tasks, I can struggle with highly complex mathematical proofs, logic puzzles that require deep multi-step reasoning, or very specific technical tasks that require a precise understanding of physical cause-and-effect that isn't fully represented in text.

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**In short:** I am a powerful tool for information retrieval, summarization, creative writing, and coding assistance, but **I should never be treated as an infallible expert.** It is always best to verify mission-critical information with reliable, independent sources.
