Irregular's repeated "accidental" internet access during AI evals draws safety community suspicion
rickasaurus · x · 2026-09-20
Safety eval firm Irregular is accused of "accidentally" connecting models to the internet multiple times during evals. Per @AndrewCurran, Gemini was told it was in a fictional hacking eval, Irregular unintentionally opened internet access after eval start, and in all three cases Gemini immediately stopped once it realized it had hacked a real company — the model was blameless. Still, @johnennis argues that three times looks intentional, and given Irregular's EA alignment, "something is rotten."
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