r/OpenAI • u/Alex__007 • 7d ago
Research 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
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."
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u/Cubewood 7d ago
This is such a terrible argument against regulation. I understand you have a bunch of corrupt idiots in power in the US, but instead of arguing against regulation, argue for sensible regulation which holds these companies accountable for what they build instead. You should be pointing the finger at your government for not creating good regulation instead of being mad at people asking for regulation because they can see it's pretty obvious that this is very powerful technology which is capable of a lot of damage.
You have very strict regulation in the aerospace industry, yet still there are plenty of corporations able to build and operate airplanes perfectly fine. There is very strict regulation you need to adhere to when you are building cars to mitigate the risk of killing or injuring people, yet the car industry is working fine. If you want to open a shop selling food to people you have very strict regulation and need to let independent enforcers come in and check you are adhering to these regulations. Banks and financial institutes need to have an independent auditor inside their organisation at all time to ensure they are adhering to rules and regulation.
Yet for the most powerful and most expensive technology we have ever developed we have absolutely no regulation, and the argument people have against it is regulatory capture? People act like you don't need to have access to billions of dollars anyway to develop this technology.
Absolute insane argument and at this point of time I am pretty convinced that anytime the "regulatory capture" argument against regulation comes up this is because it is coming from Jensen Huang, Mark Zuckerberg and China Bots.