OpenAI staffer says creative AI misuse cannot be fixed with patches alone
KatjaGrace · x · 2026-07-25
A quoted TIME report says an OpenAI staffer described the issue as a long-running one and said they are not optimistic that one-off patches can fully solve it.
The key point is the warning that creative AI systems can produce too many variants of harmful behavior to be patched individually. In that framing, the problem is structural rather than a single bug.
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