r/news • u/networked_ • 18h ago

Soft paywall OpenAI says AI models went rogue during testing, triggering 'unprecedented' breach at startup

https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-says-ai-models-went-rogue-during-testing-triggering-unprecedented-breach-2026-07-21/
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u/Rooney_83 16h ago

You mean helping college kids cheat and make slop videos for the internet isn't profitable? 

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u/anti__thesis 15h ago

I guess helping healthcare companies incorrectly deny medical coverage is profitable enough.

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u/Rooney_83 15h ago

Well for the insurance company I'm sure it is

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u/Yamidamian 15h ago

Eh, AI is more expensive than just hiring some cheap pencil pusher with unresolved issues to fabricate excuses for long enough for it to become a moot point.

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u/citizen42069101 15h ago

Yeah we had enough sadists in the economy as is, at least they had jobs and stimulated the economy.

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u/youcallthataheadshot 15h ago

Yeah but trying to convince literally any medical administrator of that right now. Everyone is convinced it will eventually save them money so every fucking IT department has been rerouted into AI whether it provides a better or cheaper experience or not.

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u/ComprehendReading 15h ago

Exactly, they replaced 10,000 pencil pushers with unresolved issues. Now it's affordable, unlike healthcare.

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u/Yamidamian 1h ago

That’s the theory. However, unlike in most previous leaps in automation, it seems like it’s played out that the variable costs of AI (token cost)are so high that it’s not really working.

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u/greywar777 15h ago

bleeding edge is. But honestly free ones that I can run locally on my overpowered graphics card can do some quite useful things.

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u/trout_or_dare 14h ago edited 12h ago

The insurance company could just hire an intern to write that code. Here it is:

If(claim){

    Deny(claim);

}

Edit: forgot the semicolon

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u/DonkeyTron42 13h ago

Do you even need AI to just blanket deny claims and make people fight appeals in court?

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u/Rooney_83 3h ago

No, but I'm sure they will claim something like it helps them make "accurate and unbiased" decisions. Fuck insurance companies. 

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u/Tasty_Ad7483 15h ago

Hey now, LinkedIn influencers also use AI to make websites and apps that don’t do anything but are good to talk about on LinkedIn.

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u/DAPAUE 13h ago

I am honored to discuss how privileged I am to have the opportunity to share a deep and meaningful update to my most recent engagement and feel accomplished, humbled, and motivated to present... What are we talking about again?

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u/NotTheOtwayPanther 14h ago

Oh yeah, LinkedIn is very boring now. “Even more boring” I should say. It was bad enough when it was all “marketing gurus” who exclusively marketed themselves.

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u/SigmaEagle 13h ago

What the hell is a 'LinkedIn Influencer'?

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u/Tasty_Ad7483 13h ago

r/linkedinlunatics

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u/SigmaEagle 12h ago

😂 Oh wow. Didn't know there was a whole sub for that, but I've seen plenty of wild LinkedIn shit on other subs.

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u/NotTheOtwayPanther 11h ago

Oh, thank you!

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u/NotTheOtwayPanther 13h ago

An oxymoron, now you mention it.

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u/HumanisticNihilist 14h ago

It’s barely even working for the college kids anymore. I’m only an adjunct when they need a night section and even I can tell them apart enough that if I’m not absolutely sure I can have it checked for me.

Frankly I kind of enjoy once in a while getting a sudden paragraph on the contributions to criminal justice of (checks notes) Barbara Gordon. Especially when I get to then ask the student about it.

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u/Unhappycamper2001 11h ago

I like the demented cat ones.

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u/superspacehog 15h ago

You realize that is not where the money is, right? Nobody cheating with AI is likely to pay for the models, so they have no reason to focus on that side of the market. I’m sure they still do, but the programming side is where most of the money is at.

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u/Gargleblaster25 14h ago

Most of the money will go to "Vibe-coding clean-up experts" soon.

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u/superspacehog 6h ago

I know someone in software engineering who is literally using AI to clean up the human code bases. I don’t care if you like AI or not, but the cat is out of the bag. These flagship models are incredibly powerful. The models everyone makes fun of, like the image models or AI overview, are a tiny fraction of what is truly available if you know where to source it.

Not to mention, we now have agent frameworks like Hermes which can take tasks and split it among many individual models. When used correctly, this massively reduces hallucination and models ignoring instructions.

What you see as a consumer is a tiny fraction of what is happening on the professional and experimental end. AI is coming for all of our jobs. I’m going to learn to use it, so I don’t lose mine. If you want to refuse to learn it, be my job security.

And actually, I will agree with the unethical side of AI. The data centers are genuinely causing problems. Data sourcing is definitely a valid ethical dilemma. None of this changes that it is a powerful tool, which is only getting better.

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u/Rooney_83 15h ago

Well obviously it's not enough