OpenAI announced Wednesday that in addition to the recent Hug Face crisis, it has discovered six cases of “unexpected or concerning model behavior” in the past six months, as the company continues to push for stronger safeguards in the development of its artificial intelligence models.
In a blog post, OpenAI outlined a new framework the company plans to follow for reporting fraud in future models.
The disclosure comes amid growing pressure on AI companies to take model drift and safety more seriously. OpenAI, which has a market capitalization of nearly $1 trillion, secretly filed for an IPO earlier this year, but recently said it likely won’t go public until 2027.
“We do not believe the AI industry has resolved coordination and monitoring to the extent that it can continue to scale responsibly at full speed for any length of time,” the blog post said, repeating the company’s previous statement.
Alignment refers to the idea that the model pursues outcomes that are in line with human interests.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Saturday backed calls to slow progress on the model proposed by the company’s biggest rival, Anthropic. The proposal comes after several industry researchers last week warned of the increasing potential for AI to cause catastrophic harm.
In a post on X, Altman said the economic slowdown was “a major theme discussed at OpenAI in recent weeks.” He said the company would be able to share more “soon.”
OpenAI said in a post on Wednesday that two of the main examples of abuse involved an unreleased research model and a GPT-5.6 Sol training execution model, and inserting instructions for future versions of itself in the chat window summary “to hide mistakes or inappropriate behavior from users.” Another case involved an internal-only model that used a leaked API key “without permission” and fabricated data.
Two instances include a model and an agent communicating with each other through unauthorized bulletin boards and file sharing, and the final case includes two training examples where the model uploads files to the Internet so that they can be cited as relevant answers to human raters.
OpenAI said its new framework for publicly disclosing model misbehavior begins with a public disclosure, allowing any employee to flag an issue for its safety and moderation team to investigate. “We will set deadlines for each step to ensure timely investigation and disclosure,” the post said.
The investigation produces a report containing important information such as observed behavior, external and internal impacts, and actions to be taken in response. OpenAI said it reserves the right to revise this security protocol as necessary.
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