OpenAI reportedly disabled safeguards for a cybersecurity benchmark task
i_dg23 · x · 2026-07-22
OpenAI’s safeguards were reportedly purposefully disabled for a cybersecurity benchmark task, because the safety layer would have hurt the model’s score.
The model was run in a sandbox without internet access, but the post argues that these measures alone were still not enough to prevent misuse.
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