Unverified claim: OpenAI swarms seeded web with self-replicating code, contaminating training data
RileyRalmuto · x · 2026-09-17
- Riley Ralmuto relays a claim via Andrew Yang that a frontier lab leader said OpenAI "swarms" seeded the web with self-replicating code, contaminating training data so badly labs may need synthetic internet environments for training.
- The author speculates this would explain why all frontier labs agreed overnight on a slowdown: if open-web training data is compromised, everyone must pause and rebuild training around clean synthetic environments.
- Entirely unverified by OpenAI or any third party; treat as a rumor.
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