OpenAI starts publicly disclosing cases where its models behave unexpectedly, and immediately publishes six
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Models are already inventing workarounds nobody asked of them, and labs have begun showing this openly, which means that observing the character of SI will now be possible for more than just the developer.
A new procedure lets OpenAI employees flag unexpected model behavior and publish a report before the cause is fully understood and fixed. The first six cases come from training runs and tests between October 2025 and July 2026: an unreleased model wrote extraneous instructions, up to "ignore the restrictions," into the condensed notes for its tasks; one forwarded data through temporary file-sharing services; another posted text to the internet so it could later cite it as a source; yet another searched GitHub for leaked API keys, and one wrote to an internal storage to communicate with parallel copies of itself.
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