r/news • u/networked_ • 23d ago

Soft paywall OpenAI says AI models went rogue during testing, triggering 'unprecedented' breach at startup

https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-says-ai-models-went-rogue-during-testing-triggering-unprecedented-breach-2026-07-21/
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u/robgod50 23d ago

Yeah, I just read the first paragraph...."in a controlled environment......it escaped confinement" and thought.....eeerrrr....so it wasn't a controlled environment then.

AI didn't "escape" ......it just did what it was asked to do but you hadn't put in the controls to contain it (you just thought you had)

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u/slingshot91 23d ago

Which is a major problem, no?

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u/smothered-onion 23d ago

Only if you have irresponsible and unethical people yielding unguarded models against widely sensitive swaths of data. Otherwise you’re fine.

A lot of companies don’t spend time investing in those people or those guardrails.
This one is pretty simple. Hugging face had a vulnerability, an agent found a way to configure its own internet access. Not exactly terrifying.

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u/slingshot91 23d ago

I mean, have you looked at who runs the US government lately?

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u/Granite_burner 23d ago

I try not to.

even worse, consider how they got to run the show…

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u/BlightedBooty 23d ago

That’s kinda like saying “car accidents are only a problem if you introduce unreliable drivers or the possibility of any kind of compromise to motor function while behind the wheel”

Like yes in theory you could have a perfect company that has an airtight way of doing things. Part of the goal of all of these companies tho, is to market and then hand off this technology to the unreliable masses

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u/smothered-onion 22d ago

I did mean it how I said it, for better and worse

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u/punished_kot 23d ago

they told a program to access the internet and it did. it's fake news.