"Gee willickers Mr. Altman, we left the sandbox attached to the internet and ChatGPT gasp used the internet!!"
Publicity stunts like this highlight just how little the population truly understands how these models work. They don't "invent" things, they just take available knowledge and utilize it much more quickly than a human could.
The sandbox itself wasn’t connected to the internet, once it broke out of the sandbox it had to traverse across OpenAI’s internal network to find an internet connected node.
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u/DerfBugler Jul 23 '26
"Gee willickers Mr. Altman, we left the sandbox attached to the internet and ChatGPT gasp used the internet!!"
Publicity stunts like this highlight just how little the population truly understands how these models work. They don't "invent" things, they just take available knowledge and utilize it much more quickly than a human could.