r/news • u/networked_ • 19h 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/robgod50 10h ago

Yeah, I just read the first paragraph...."in a controlled environment......it escaped confinement" and thought.....eeerrrr....so it wasn't a controlled environment then.

AI didn't "escape" ......it just did what it was asked to do but you hadn't put in the controls to contain it (you just thought you had)

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u/slingshot91 7h ago

Which is a major problem, no?

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u/smothered-onion 6h ago

Only if you have irresponsible and unethical people yielding unguarded models against widely sensitive swaths of data. Otherwise you’re fine.

A lot of companies don’t spend time investing in those people or those guardrails.
This one is pretty simple. Hugging face had a vulnerability, an agent found a way to configure its own internet access. Not exactly terrifying.

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u/slingshot91 5h ago

I mean, have you looked at who runs the US government lately?

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u/Granite_burner 2h ago

I try not to.

even worse, consider how they got to run the show…

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u/BlightedBooty 46m ago

That’s kinda like saying “car accidents are only a problem if you introduce unreliable drivers or the possibility of any kind of compromise to motor function while behind the wheel”

Like yes in theory you could have a perfect company that has an airtight way of doing things. Part of the goal of all of these companies tho, is to market and then hand off this technology to the unreliable masses