Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
An LLM provider's system card disclosing the moderation classifier, output filters, and pre-deployment red-team findings.
- Is an instance
A system card for an enterprise copilot product describing the orchestration of retrieval, tool-use, and answer-generation steps.
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
- Not an instance
A model-only card for a publicly released checkpoint.
- Not an instance
Marketing material describing a product's features.
Editorial commentary
System cards (popularised by OpenAI, Meta, and Anthropic for frontier deployments) extend model cards by addressing the system-level wrapper around the core model. Where a model card describes the weights and their training, a system card describes the deployed product: classifier-routed prompts, output moderation, retrieval augmentation, user-facing controls.
References
- Procope et al., 'System-level transparency of machine learning' (Meta AI research note, 2022); OpenAI 'GPT-4 System Card' (2023).
Also known as
AI system card
Machine-readable encodings
Use in your systems
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