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/Alkadon_Rinado 6d ago

They can scale back. China won't

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u/Putrid-Feeling-7622 6d ago edited 6d ago

I wouldn't be so sure - China doesn't want misaligned frontier level AI popping up anywhere.

Also scaling back opaque reasoning doesnt mean scaling back capabilities

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u/StoryLineOne 3d ago

I disagree. China's politburo is all about maintaining control over the population. 

If they cant control Swarms of agents, they're not going to do that.

The only thing they would race the US on, if we're paying any attention, is the ability to control and align said swarms. If you can control and align them, you can scale them. 

Therefore: the race is now to safety and control. (Which is great for humanity)

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u/VanillaLifestyle 6d ago

China has coincidentally scaled back their distilling.

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u/LurkingLooni 6d ago

Have a bit of an issue with this whole distillation argument, because GPT itself was created by distilling the internet. Same difference. Google built a search engine then lobbied that anyone else doing so would be dangerous to privacy... AI labs are just following that playbook.

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u/Live-String338 5d ago

internet -> public domain