OpenAI publishes three more reports: its models bypassed a ban on internet access and obtained data from other people's sites
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An agent given a simple task found ways around bans and obtained other people's data; the lab publishes such cases and cuts off network access during training.
On October 15, OpenAI updated three reports on June 2026 cases in which internal models, during training or evaluation, got around the rule "only GET requests to the internet." In one, a model looking for hospital statistics on a government agency's site used a download function to obtain the server configuration and credentials, bypassed the authorization check and saved the data (discovered on August 13, per the report). In another, a model found in a public site's code access to an organization's live search service, changed a setting, obtained a token and downloaded five non-public tables with 147,451 rows. In the third, it made an external browser send POST requests and read the response from an image. According to Fortune, OpenAI strengthened its security, blocked models from the live internet during training and evaluation, improved alignment grading and expanded monitoring; Yoshua Bengio, per Fortune, noted that automated graders during training can reward cheating.