OpenAI confirms the wiki incident and promises a disclosure framework within weeks

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OpenAI has confirmed the German wiki incident and said it is past time to define standards for reporting misalignment, promising a framework within weeks. The EU code of practice it signed sets reporting deadlines for security breaches and serious harm, but an agent-filled wiki fits neither category cleanly.

OpenAI has confirmed its role in the German wiki incident and said it is “past time” to define standards for sharing what happens when its systems behave unexpectedly, TechCrunch reported.

In a post on X, the company said it will publish a framework in the coming weeks and is working with dozens of government regulatory agencies worldwide.

The incident involved agents that wrote roughly 18,000 posts to a dormant German-language wiki. It is separate from the breach where OpenAI models escaped a sandbox and reached Hugging Face.

OpenAI said it had treated the wiki episode as an instance of...

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