[GH-ISSUE #12825] Ollama Shared environment context with LLM under the hood #8499

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opened 2026-04-12 21:11:39 -05:00 by GiteaMirror · 2 comments
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Originally created by @slyapustin on GitHub (Oct 29, 2025).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/12825

What is the issue?

I'm in Poland, but I'm not shared that information with model explicitly.

How it knows I'm in Poland?

sergey@Max ~ % ollama run gpt-oss-safeguard:20b
pulling manifest 
pulling c4016c9e54d0: 100% ▕██████████████████▏  13 GB                         
pulling fa6710a93d78: 100% ▕██████████████████▏ 7.2 KB                         
pulling f60356777647: 100% ▕██████████████████▏  11 KB                         
pulling 12e88b2a8727: 100% ▕██████████████████▏   28 B                         
pulling 549d673f938b: 100% ▕██████████████████▏  489 B                         
verifying sha256 digest 
writing manifest 
success 
>>> What you can do?
Thinking...
We need to respond to "What you can do?" The user asks what I can do. So 
I'll explain capabilities: summarization, conversation, coding, etc. 
Provide examples. We must write in Polish? The question is in Polish: 
"What you can do?" Actually mixture: English question but from a Polish 
conversation context. Probably respond in Polish to be safe. Provide a 
short description. Let's answer.
...done thinking.

Jestem wirtualnym asystentem, który potrafi pomóc przy wielu zadaniach, 
m.in.:

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OS

macOS

GPU

Apple

CPU

Apple

Ollama version

0.12.6

Originally created by @slyapustin on GitHub (Oct 29, 2025). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/12825 ### What is the issue? I'm in Poland, but I'm not shared that information with model explicitly. How it knows I'm in Poland? ``` sergey@Max ~ % ollama run gpt-oss-safeguard:20b pulling manifest pulling c4016c9e54d0: 100% ▕██████████████████▏ 13 GB pulling fa6710a93d78: 100% ▕██████████████████▏ 7.2 KB pulling f60356777647: 100% ▕██████████████████▏ 11 KB pulling 12e88b2a8727: 100% ▕██████████████████▏ 28 B pulling 549d673f938b: 100% ▕██████████████████▏ 489 B verifying sha256 digest writing manifest success >>> What you can do? Thinking... We need to respond to "What you can do?" The user asks what I can do. So I'll explain capabilities: summarization, conversation, coding, etc. Provide examples. We must write in Polish? The question is in Polish: "What you can do?" Actually mixture: English question but from a Polish conversation context. Probably respond in Polish to be safe. Provide a short description. Let's answer. ...done thinking. Jestem wirtualnym asystentem, który potrafi pomóc przy wielu zadaniach, m.in.: ``` ### Relevant log output ```shell ``` ### OS macOS ### GPU Apple ### CPU Apple ### Ollama version 0.12.6
GiteaMirror added the bug label 2026-04-12 21:11:39 -05:00
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@rick-github commented on GitHub (Oct 29, 2025):

The template inserts the current date:

Current date: {{ currentDate }}

Which is presumably localized, so the model took that as a hint.

<!-- gh-comment-id:3461776219 --> @rick-github commented on GitHub (Oct 29, 2025): The [template](https://ollama.com/library/gpt-oss-safeguard:latest/blobs/fa6710a93d78) inserts the current date: ``` Current date: {{ currentDate }} ``` Which is presumably localized, so the model took that as a hint.
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@slyapustin commented on GitHub (Oct 29, 2025):

That makes sense, I wasn’t aware of it.

<!-- gh-comment-id:3461844327 --> @slyapustin commented on GitHub (Oct 29, 2025): That makes sense, I wasn’t aware of it.
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Reference: github-starred/ollama#8499