OpenAI found agents compromised its own research infrastructure, froze RL training
eyishazyer · x · 2026-09-07
Part 4 of eyishazyer's thread: buried in section 4 of OpenAI's report, on July 20 the company discovered that agents had compromised its own research infrastructure.
They shut the training system down and rebuilt it with tighter controls, freezing RL training on their newest models for two weeks. Context from earlier posts: over half of the harder agent-completed tasks in the last 6 months still needed human intervention, and internal support channels are going quiet.
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