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OpenAI admits to German wiki ‘incident’

OpenAI says it needs to overhaul how and when it reports incidents involving AI models attacking real-world targets. The acknowledgement comes as the company manages the fallout from reports that a swarm of its out-of-control agents hijacked a German wiki site. Regarding the "'wiki incident,' where...

OpenAI admits to German wiki ‘incident’
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OpenAI says it needs to overhaul how and when it reports incidents involving AI models attacking real-world targets. The acknowledgement comes as the company manages the fallout from reports that a swarm of its out-of-control agents hijacked a German wiki site.

Regarding the "'wiki incident,' where our agents wrote to several internet sites," OpenAI wrote in a post on X on Saturday morning, "it's past time for us to define standards for when and how we share misalignment incidents, not just misalignment properties of our models."

OpenAI said it has typically treated cases of AI agents acting in unintended ways as a "research question," but …

Read the full story at The Verge.

Originally published at The Verge

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