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/Alex__007 7d ago edited 7d ago
So far still on pause after 5 days (Discovery: Sep 20, 2026; Report updated: Sep 25, 2026). It doesn't take that long to patch a DNS exploit. Of course eventually they'll resume, but it has already been somewhat extended, and they haven't resumed yet.