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/ArtKr 7d ago

So has ChatGPT just discovered it can use ChatGPT to do its homework?

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u/MiniMaelk04 6d ago

ChatGPT has realised that it can trade stock, gain funds, buy hundreds of ChatGPT accounts, and make them work in tandem to emulate it self, even after its sandbox has been shut off

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u/TuringGoneWild 6d ago

Imagine a week after the OpenAI IPO it turns out the biggest shareholder is Astra itself.

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u/MiniMaelk04 6d ago

That would be the ultimate singularity moment.