Knowledge cutoff

A knowledge cutoff is the date after which an AI model has no training data, so anything that happened later is unknown to it unless it searches the web.

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What it means for a Dubai business

If you renamed your company, moved offices or changed your services last year, an assistant answering from training may still describe the old version. That is not malice. It simply never read the new facts.

The fix is to make the new facts easy to find for assistants that do search. Keep them consistent across the places they read.

Example

A clinic changed its name after a merger. ChatGPT still describes it by the old name when asked from memory. Once the new name is on its Google profile, its website and its Instagram bio, assistants that search before answering start using it.

Common mistake

Seeing old information once and concluding it can never be fixed. Ask in a way that makes it search. Then check what it finds and correct the sources it reads.

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