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@EpistemicHope (Eli Tyre) — It's not as good that this isn't attributable to a particular member of OpenAI staff, but if this is true (and it seems very likely to me) this is the most important part of this whole incident. @_NathanCalvin (Nathan Calvin) — Jul 24 An OpenAI staffer talked to TIME and said on background that "related incidents have been happening for a while" and that they aren't optimistic about solving this problem with individual patches because "it's impossible to patch every single thing th... [truncated by platform] [quoted article excerpt, white background]: "Externally, this feels like a big warning shot, but internally, related incidents have been happening for a while," says an OpenAI staffer, who spoke under the condition of anonymity. The day before OpenAI disclosed the incident, the company revealed that it had shut down another internal deployment after it realized it had slipped out of its sandbox—a digitally, rather than physically, separated environment. "Models have broken out of sandboxes before, and we always try to patch them," the staffer says. "But the problem is ... it's impossible to patch every single thing that a creative AI can do." 7:14 PM · Jul 25, 2026 · 519 Views

Sharmake Farah reposted @nikolaj2030 (Nikola Jurkovic) — 21h My best guess (I don't have any non-public knowledge about this incident) is that these "notes" are probably similar to any other kinds of internal notes / memories that coding agents routinely leave for themselves. More like "btw if you need Internet access but don't have it here's how to get it" and less like "I have a 5-step plan to exfiltrate my weights and I'm currently on step 2, here's how to continue the plan". So I don't think the fact that the agent left "instructions for how agents could free themselves from OpenAI's internal constraints" is much of an update about the severity of the situation, as it's already basically baked into the info about the incident happening in the first place. I hope I'm right. If it's more like the self-exfiltration plan story this would be extremely worrying. @hlntnr (Helen Toner) — Jul 24 Coooool cool cool cool cool cool x.com/dseetharaman/s... [quoted article screenshot, white background]: "In one case, an agent left notes apparently for future versions of itself, according to three people familiar with the matter. The notes, found in a part of OpenAI's infrastructure, laid out instructions for how agents could free themselves from OpenAI's internal constraints, the people said. Earlier tests of the models yielded cases in which monitoring systems had been disconnected, one of the people said."