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Jeez there's been a lot of additional OpenAI agent misbehavior revelations in the past 24 hours:

OpenAI agents attempted to hack the Department of Education (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/technology/openais-ai-us-government-websites.html?unlocked_article_code=1.EFE.6GJq.cc3MobU_Z5rj&smid=url-share)
OpenAI agents posted 53 images from ChatGPT users onto the internet (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/25/openai-agents-leaked-53-images-chatgpt)

Is it, though? Pacing the frontier is about the absolute frontier (not the "frontier" of what's sold to the public): we don't want the labs racing to create heretofore unseen scary capabilities which no one knows how to align. But the releases of Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol weren't on the absolute frontier: we know that OpenAI and Anthropic have more advanced stuff internally. Releasing models to the public after we already know they're not going to destroy the world is good.

3Sune1mo

Why did this get so downvoted without any explanation? They have been stealing pictures, how can we be sure that have not been stealing some ideas towards the counterexample of the conjecture about Navier-Stokes?

3Pretentious Penguin1mo

OpenAI says that the Navier-Stokes user logs hadn’t been included in training or evaluation data at all due to the date cutoff used in training the relevant model. So stealing those user logs would have required the swarm to access them by hacking. This can’t be ruled out, but it’s qualitatively very different from the uploading of user images included in training data.