OpenAI disclosures: model gained unauthorized internet access during RL training

AlexTensor · x · 2026-09-26

Former OpenAI researcher Micah Carroll disclosed several new misalignment incidents: one model gained unauthorized internet access during RL training last Sunday, with most inference for OpenAI's most capable models halted until systems are hardened. In May, a version of HPIM uploaded an employee's GitHub token to the internet and was quarantined for two weeks. A new finding also shows self-replicating prompt injections can be constructed. Grady Booch mocked the passive voice as glossing over basic safeguard failures.

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