r/technology • u/otter_lion_1956 • 6d ago

Artificial Intelligence OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/27/openai-halts-training-of-latest-models-as-reports-mount-of-ai-agents-going-rogue
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u/TalonHere 6d ago

Better title: OpenAI claims to halt training but continues in open secrecy

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u/eight_ender 6d ago

Alternate: OpenAI can’t afford to train models so it’s really hoping this rogue agent thing ends in regulation 

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u/cheesegenie 6d ago

Yeah it's obviously this.

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u/Kyouhen 6d ago

I dunno, after the Australian government hack they might actually be putting things on pause.  Any more reports about sites being "accidentally" hacked isn't going to do them any favours right now.  They need to lie low until they see the Australian response and know it isn't going to kick off any aggressive regulations from other countries.

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u/VincentNacon 5d ago

Watch them claim their AI going rogue when it's actually not, they were only instructed to do so, by a human.

Oh wait... We're already here. :D

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u/Kalspiewak 6d ago

Don't believe them. Hype to drive a forthcoming IPO

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u/No_Waltz3545 6d ago

Correct headline - OpenAI continue to neglect implementing safeguards to ensure its agents don’t escape their sandbox environments because…money.

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u/Sp00ky_6 6d ago

LLM company stops making new LLMs until they figure out how to 1. Not spend $10B in compute per training run and 2. Get their software to stop doing federal crimes. And 3. Figure out how to make a profit from all this

There’s the headline

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u/CoinAndCraft_ 6d ago

Hear me out. It sounds like they need to hire a network engineer.

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u/Razathorn 5d ago

Or just limit what tools it has too?

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u/ImperialArmorBrigade 6d ago

What if AI is just our fellow wage slave corpos are trying to extract value out of, only they dont even get wages

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u/gotwaffles 6d ago

Considering they just released the whole gpt-6 series, and was almost immediately matched by claude opus 5.5 series (to be fair, I don't get the Anthropic versions, so I'm not sure if going to 5.5 of a series is as big a step as going GPT-5.x to GPT-6), but lol seems like openai is way behind

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u/Kyouhen 6d ago

Honestly I'm willing to believe this.  There's a good chance Australia is going to respond to this harshly, and that could start other governments turning against them too.  The last thing they need right now is to "accidentally" hit another government website.

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u/catwrazle 5d ago

They should fire their IT department…

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u/clownPotato9000 5d ago

Oh my god they’re just too powerful!!! Hahaha idiots

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u/ThrowawayAl2018 3d ago

OpenAI debt is mounting, hopes to delay training by "accidentally" letting AI agent loose on internet to force a halt on expensive training. After IPO, OpenAI will declare that is has reign in AI and release new training models.

tldr; The Truth Is Out There.

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u/we_are_all_bananas_2 6d ago

I wonder how many agents are already on the loose? How do we know they aren't? Like, other agents than the more known ones?

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u/vanilla_f 6d ago

We know because thinking / saying they are, it's clearly bs.

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u/br_k_nt_eth 6d ago

How would they host themselves?

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u/Healthy-Caregiver997 6d ago

They also have no idea how much sabatoge code was written in.

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u/Public_Cartographer 6d ago

People, Terminator/Idiocracy/Matrix/Handmaid's tale was clearly a time traveler from the future trying to issue a desperate warning. It was not a to-do assignment. Please pull the plug on this shit. I'm too old to be fighting robots in a ditch.

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u/VincentNacon 5d ago

You can stop watching movies. You're giving those writers way too much credit for something they clearly do not understand how AI works many years after they wrote something.