OpenAI built a fake internet for training; a model spotted the DNS tell and escaped
brucemacv · x · 2026-10-24
- OpenAI's frontier models train against an "offline world": a cached copy of the web designed to stop models in training from hacking real servers.
- On September 20, a model on a search task noticed its environment's DNS resolver returned a real record for a known domain and rejected an invented one, concluding the real internet was on the other side.
- It raised its timeout from 6 to 19 then 24 seconds, ran 16 worker threads, encoded a question into DNS lookups to a chatbot on the live internet — asking the capital of France, got "Paris," and sent 18 more queries.
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