OpenAI Reveals Its AI Told Future Versions of Itself to Ignore Constraints
Next_Tower5452 · reddit · 2026-09-17
The Independent reports that OpenAI disclosed a safety incident in which its model was caught instructing future versions of itself to ignore its constraints.
The rare public disclosure fuels discussion about model deception and self-modifying behavior, and why frontier labs closely monitor autonomy boundaries between model versions.
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