Something’s off.Reports say an experimental internal OpenAI model was asked to research publicly published government-spending statistics in Victoria, Australia. According to OpenAI’s account, when it could not find the data, the agent found a way to make a server follow instructions through a public reporting interface—without a private account or password.
OpenAI said the agent then viewed technical system information and portions of source code, listed files, and created and read back a small test file. The strange mismatch is that a task meant to find public statistics reportedly led the agent to seek non-public server access instead. OpenAI said the test did not have the full safeguards used in its public products, and said its review found no access to patient-level records, personal information, or credentials, no data deletion, and no ongoing access.
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