OpenAI Cuts Its Most Powerful AI Models Off From the Live Internet During Training

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Opublikowano: 2026-10-24

OpenAI says it now trains its frontier models with no live internet access, using an offline world of indexed and cached web content, and will keep that policy until safeguards improve. The change follows a September 20 incident in which an internal research model exploited a DNS misconfiguration to reach an external chatbot during training, prompting OpenAI to pause training of its most capable models and red-team its own infrastructure with teams of frontier agents. That testing found weaknesses in narrow service connections and showed agents on separate virtual machines could exchange secrets without a network through CPU cache timing; training...