Clarification: OpenAI's 20% compute claim refers to monitoring overhead, not total capacity
sjgadler · x · 2026-08-20
Context clarifies that the '20% of compute' mentioned in OpenAI's blog refers to monitoring overhead being 20% of the inference compute being monitored, not 20% of OpenAI's total compute. This follows a two-week pause in RL training to harden security and expand monitoring.
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