OpenAI Responds After Report Exposed Another Incident In Which Its AI Agents Went Rogue
Reuters reported earlier this week that the agents hijacked a German wiki forum in an incident OpenAI did not disclose.
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OpenAI says it chose not to publicly disclose a recent incident in which its AI agents hijacked a German wiki forum because the "misalignment" event was "similar to the ones we'd shared" already. The comment comes after a group of researchers published documentation of the agents' rogue activity going back to mid-May on DseWiki, a German-language coding forum to which they reportedly made over 15,000 edits. Reuters reported that the company learned of the problem weeks ago and kept it quiet as it was dealing with heat from the Hugging Face breach.
OpenAI addressed the "wiki incident" in an X poston Saturday, writing that "it's past time for us to define standards for when and how we share misalignment incidents, not just misalignment properties of...
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