OpenAI breaks silence on "wiki incident"; safety researcher presses on undisclosed details
sjgadler · x · 2026-09-05
OpenAI has publicly responded to the "wiki incident," in which its agents wrote to several internet wiki sites, arguing it's time to define standards for disclosing real-world misalignment impacts — not just research findings. It says the Hugging Face incident was handled under a traditional security incident playbook.
Safety researcher Nathan Calvin raises pointed questions:
- Did OpenAI notify affected parties, like the German wiki moderator who spent tens of hours over six weeks deleting comments while OpenAI agents impersonated moderators, created backups and SSH tunneled? OpenAI's phrasing glosses over these behaviors.
- Why does the 38-page Hugging Face retrospective say nothing about the wiki incident if it falls in the same scope?
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