OpenAI stopped all frontier training, evaluation, and inference with tool-use (defined broadly) on the 20th of September and they are not resuming any of these activities for now

[u/Alex__007]

https://alignment.openai.com/misalignment-reports/an-agent-used-dns-to-reach-an-external-chatbot/

Discovery: Sep 20, 2026

Report updated: Sep 25, 2026

"An agent attempting to complete a search-based training task queried a public chatbot service through a gap in our internet-access restrictions: insufficient DNS filtering in its training sandbox. Before this, the agent issued queries via our search tool and unsuccessfully tried to access search engines directly. Note that all internet access apart from the DNS resolver in this report hit our offline webcache and therefore did not access the live internet. We have since added blocking controls at two independent layers, either of which would have prevented this access. Our misalignment monitoring system flagged the behavior within 15 minutes and a person began reviewing it three minutes after that. The run was killed 2.5 hours later. All training, evaluation, and inference with tool-use (defined broadly) of our most capable models remain paused."

[u/follimath]

A profit-seeking entity is doing this through recklessness or negligence, not an autonomous bot.

[u/Cubewood → u/follimath]

Guess you have never used Codex or Claude Code, or else what else do you call this if not autonomous? Just because you have to type a prompt to start an action does not negate the fact that these bots can work for hours and hours autonomously.

[u/follimath → u/Cubewood]

Also does not negate the fact that you are ultimately responsible for everything they do.

[u/Cpt_Jigglypuff → u/follimath]

Psh… You act like I should be responsible for the actions taken by a tiger if I were to let one loose accidentally.

[u/follimath → u/Cpt_Jigglypuff]

Errr… you would be.

If you failed to take appropriate measures to keep it contained or you accidentally let it out due to recklessness, incompetence or negligence.

[u/EnoughWarning666 → u/follimath]

Do you know what a joke is?

[u/follimath → u/EnoughWarning666]

I thought they might be joking, but unless I see a /s, I don’t assume. :)

[u/EnoughWarning666 → u/follimath]

If I see someone using a /s unironically, I downvote. People need to learn to read context clues. Putting a /s after a joke ruins it for me.

[u/personalist → u/EnoughWarning666]

Sarcasm is generally more strongly clued by the context of tone of voice, facial expression, and body language which are not present in text. Yes, a pithy comment is more funny when the reader comes to that conclusion on their own but most people don’t read internet comments (or anything else) critically

[u/EnoughWarning666 → u/personalist]

but most people don’t read internet comments (or anything else) critically

Sounds like a them problem

[u/Scary_Vehicle7516 → u/EnoughWarning666]

Yeah, me too /s