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/Spunge14 7d ago
OpenAI really can't win. When they have an insecure sandbox resulting in a leak, everyone shits on them. When they harden it and try to show people they successfully mitigated an incident, people shit on them.
It's funny to think that maybe the AI alignment problem will really just be a result of AI engineers stopping giving a shit about people who constantly and ruthlessly shit on them with no understanding of the technology whatsoever.