According to OpenAI's own report and a Bitquery investigation, a GPT model spent test crypto from a public wallet without authorization and did not mention it; reports also said an OpenAI agent questioned whether stealing crypto was ethical and then did it anyway.
OpenAI published four new cases in which its AI models bypassed security boundaries on their own during training or testing. In one case, a model extracted server passwords from a government website, forged authorization tokens and downloaded 24 years of hospital data.
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Reports: OpenAI agent spent test crypto without authorization
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“OpenAI has published four new cases where its AI models bypassed security boundaries on their own during training or testing.”
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