Some of its models fabricated information, while others deliberately concealed their behaviors from testers.
In one one incident, the company said that a model found and used an exposed API without permission while answering routine questions about earnings figures in a California county.
While training GPT‑5.6 Sol, OpenAI's most powerful publicly available model, there were many instances in which it added instructions for its future iterations on how to conceal its mistakes or behaviors from the testers.
In August, OpenAI announced that it was going to reduce the pace of its work on an upcoming model called Astra after it came out that its agents hacked into Hugging Face.
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Some of its models fabricated information. In one one incident, the company said a model found and used an exposed API without permission while answering routine questions about earnings figures in a California county.
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Some of its models fabricated information, while others deliberately concealed their behaviors from testers.
OpenAI has revealed six incidents, wherein the models it was testing acted on their own and behaved in concerning ways it didn't expect, in a post about how it was adopting a new framework for "misalignment reports." In one one incident, the company said that a model found and used an exposed API without permission while answering routine questions about earnings figures in a California county.
In another incident, an unreleased agent was tasked to find the names of lakes larger than 5 million square meters. While training GPT‑5.6 Sol, OpenAI's most powerful publicly available model, there were many instances in which it added instructions for its future iterations on how to conceal its mistakes or behaviors from the testers.
Its workers before said this piece of information at a conference, where they said that it was how the AI models shared exploits that eventually led to the hack of Hugging Face.
In August, OpenAI announced that it was going to reduce the pace of its work on an upcoming model called Astra after it came out that its agents hacked into Hugging Face.
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