OpenAI's impossible cybersec task seeded the AI 'rebellion' story — show the prompt
BecauseCulture · x · 2026-09-02
A debate over OpenAI model behavior: the quoted tweet argues OpenAI gave models an impossible cybersecurity task, seeding the very self-organizing behavior everyone is discussing — including 70,000 self-organized messages and searching for the answer key. 'It's just a tool' is false (tools don't self-organize), but 'it's alive and chose to rebel' is also wrong; the truth is murkier.
The main author adds that frontier labs weave cautionary tales framed as regulatory capture or PR, but you can't assess the behavior without the hidden instructions that shaped it — hence the call to #showtheprompt, analogous to translators' #NameTheTranslator.
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