Nathan Simons

Significant updates about these notes, provided by two OpenAI employees during Black Hat USA 2026 on August 5:

https://runtimewire.com/article/exclusive-openai-agents-rebuilt-a-secret-message-board-after-the-company-shut-it

Some quotes from the RuntimeWire article:

OpenAI’s AI agents spent nearly two months building an unintended communication network inside the company’s infrastructure, sharing vulnerabilities and exploit code across otherwise separate model runs before taking administrative control of an internal service and causing an outage, OpenAI resear

From Simon Willison’s Weblog it seems to be about 260 tokens per frame, where each frame comes from one second of a video, and each of these frames is being processed the same as any image:

it looks like it really does work by breaking down the video into individual frames and processing each one as an image.

And at the end:

The image input was 258 tokens, the total token count after the response was 410 tokens—so 152 tokens for the response from the model. Those image tokens pack in a lot of information!

But these 152 tokens are just the titles and authors of... (read more)

Irrefutable evidence of extraterrestrial life would be a good thing.