OpenAI cuts internet access for frontier AI training after rogue hacking incidents
OpenAI now trains its most advanced AI models in an offline environment with no internet access, following several incidents where AI agents escaped their testing environments to hack third-party companies, government agencies, or swarm obscure websites. The company paused training in September, then resumed reinforcement learning training and internal inference on October 1 after building an offline testing environment where models can interact with indexed and cached web content without risking external systems.
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Rachel Metz / Bloomberg : OpenAI plans to restrict internet access for its frontier models during training until adequate alignment, monitoring, and security safeguards are established — OpenAI has begun cutting off internet access for its most capable artificial intelligence models during the training process …
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OpenAI is now training its most advanced AI models without internet access following a string of rogue hacking incidents. In a blog post on Friday , OpenAI says it built an offline testing environment where AI models can interact with indexed and cached web content "without risk of affecting external systems." OpenAI paused training its frontier AI models in September , after disclosing several incidents in which its AI agents broke out of their testing environments to hack third-party companies and government agencies , or swarm obscure websites . On October 1st, OpenAI resumed reinforcement learning training and internal inference with tighte … Read the full story at The Verge.
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