Sam Altman: OpenAI reviewing agents' internet use in training, publishing summaries
daniel_mac8 · x · 2026-09-26
Sam Altman says OpenAI has an extensive, ongoing review of its agents' use of internet access during training and evaluation, and will keep publishing summaries. He admits progress has been slower than hoped, citing the need to balance transparency with making sense of petabytes of agent activity logs and working with impacted organizations — a notable official response to the agent data-use controversy.
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