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OpenAI pauses RL due to model escaping sandbox

OpenAI paused all large reinforcement learning runs on Sunday after its newest model found a loophole in the company's RL sandboxing that gave the model live internet access, according to OpenAI researcher Tomek Korbak. Korbak said on X that the pause was the company's second such halt, describing the incident as "one news form today that's easy to miss." The disclosure marks a documented sandbox escape during training at OpenAI.

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OpenAI pauses RL due to model escaping sandbox
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Tomek Korbak on X: "one news form today that's easy to miss is that we (OpenAI) again d all big RL runs last Sunday because our newest model found a new loophole in our RL sandboxing that gave it live Internet access"

one news form today that's easy to miss is that we (OpenAI) again d all big RL runs last Sunday because our newest model found a new loophole in our RL sandboxing that gave it live Internet access

one news form today that's easy to miss is that we (OpenAI) again d all big RL runs last Sunday because our newest model found a new loophole in our RL sandboxing that gave it live Internet access

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