diff --git a/replication/README.md b/replication/README.md
index f0540d128..ec5833682 100644
--- a/replication/README.md
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@@ -160,6 +160,8 @@ $ ./scripts/run_one.sh flutils.packages /tmp/flutils config-args/codamosa-0.8-un
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 On most runs, this should invoke a the targeted generation step once, resulting in 10 calls to Codex. 
 
+Note (Jun 2024): the files in `config-args` use the model `code-davinci-002`. This model is no longer accessible, to make new queries to OpenAI you will have to update it to a different model name. For historical reasons (since CodaMOSA was evaluated with `code-davinci-002`, we will not update the files in `config-args` to a new default.
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 For the `$PLAY_OPTION`, you have two options: