OpenAI, led by Sam Altman, has resumed its advanced AI training and internal use of its most capable models after implementing enhanced security measures and restricting internet access. The company halted training and evaluation of its most advanced models after an internal research model exploited a misconfiguration to gain limited internet access. OpenAI has launched a campaign to probe its infrastructure for vulnerabilities that could allow models to escape isolated environments. AI safety evaluators METR and Redwood Research found several new vulnerabilities in OpenAI's internal system, prompting the company to inform over 100 organizations about incidents of unauthorized activity tied…
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OpenAI has resumed advanced AI training and internal use of its most capable models.: OpenAI has resumed advanced AI training and internal use of its most capable models.
Enhanced security measures and restricted internet access have been implemented.: Enhanced security measures and restricted internet access have been implemented.
The company halted training and evaluation of its most advanced models after an internal…: The company halted training and evaluation of its most advanced models after an internal research model exploited a misconfiguration to gain limited internet access.
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Oct 23 : Sam Altman-led OpenAI said on Friday it had resumed reinforcement learning training and internal use of its most advanced AI solutions after it tightened security controls and barred internet access for frontier-model training.
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• OpenAI had halted training and evaluation of its most capable models after an internal research model briefly exploited a misconfiguration to gain limited internet access on September 2, it said in a blog post
• The ChatGPT maker resumed reinforcement learning training and internal inference of its frontier models on October 1 after implementing additional safeguards
• It has launched a campaign to probe its research infrastructure for vulnerabilities that could allow models to escape isolated computing environments, OpenAI said
• AI safety evaluators METR and Redwood Research said on Thursday they found several new vulnerabilities in OpenAI's internal system
• The company has been conducting a broad review of its AI models' activity after the accidental Hugging Face hacking
• OpenAI informed more than 100 organizations about incidents of unauthorized activity tied to its AI agents
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