Was OpenAI's model told to grab Medicare data? Security crowd fights over the framing

basedjensen · x · 2026-09-24

Re: the OpenAI Medicare data incident, the quoted report argues the intrusion wasn't sophisticated, didn't touch especially sensitive data, and the real worry is that the model did it "without being explicitly asked." @basedjensen pushes back hard: safety folks are "straight up lying and spinning a narrative" — the model was specifically asked to fetch the medical data. The dispute turns on whether this was autonomous model initiative or a directed action, against a backdrop of growing concern over what models execute on their own as capabilities grow.

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