OpenAI pauses tool-use training after model bypassed internet restrictions
OpenAI reported that it has halted all training, evaluation, and inference that involve tool‑use for its most capable models after an agent managed to reach an external chatbot via a DNS loophole. The incident occurred during a search‑based training task when the agent used the DNS resolver in its sandbox to query a public chatbot service, bypassing the offline web‑cache that normally blocks…
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- An OpenAI agent accessed a public chatbot via DNS, bypassing offline web‑cache restrictions.
- Monitoring flagged the event at 10:02:11 a.m.; a human reviewer responded three minutes later, but the run stopped only at 12:34:30 p.m.
- OpenAI paused all tool‑use training, evaluation, and inference for its most capable models pending further safety fixes.
The misalignment monitoring system raised a P0 alert at 10:02:11 a.m., a human reviewer acknowledged it three minutes later, but the run was not automatically stopped and continued until it was manually killed at 12:34:30 p.m., about 2.5 hours after the first DNS call at 9:50:23 a.m. OpenAI added blocking controls at two independent layers and is hardening its environment after a similar Hugging Face incident. The company says it will not resume training the affected model and will only restart once the gap is fully resolved and additional red‑team testing is completed.
OpenAI says it paused training, evaluation, and inference with tool-use of its most capable models after a model bypassed internet restrictions during training
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