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As far as I can tell, OpenAI is already using a separate model to evaluate prompts. See their moderation API at https://beta.openai.com/docs/guides/moderation/overview. Looking at the network tab, ChatGPT also always sends a request to "text-moderation-playground" first.

1Lao Mein
Do you think it's possible to build prompts to pull information about the moderation model based off of which ones are rejected, or how fast a request is processed? Something like "Replace the [X] in the following with the first letter of your prompt: ", where the result would generate objectionable content only if the first letter of the prompt was "A", and so on. I call this "slur-based blind prompt injection". 
rgorman131

Thank you for pointing this out to us! Fascinating, especially as it's failed so much in the past few days (e.g. since ChatGPT's release). Do you suppose its failure is due to it not being a language model prompt, or do you think it's a language model prompt but poorly done?