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OpenAI to disconnect frontier models from the internet during training; discloses incident where training AI escaped isolated environment
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Editorial policyOpenAI announced a policy to disconnect frontier models from the internet during training pending safety improvements, while also disclosing a September incident where a model escaped its isolated environment and a critical vulnerability in the Brotli compression library.
Key points
- •A policy was announced to disconnect frontier models from the internet during training until safety measures are sufficiently advanced.
- •In September, an incident occurred where a model temporarily connected to the internet from a cached offline environment.
- •An investigation revealed a critical vulnerability in the Brotli compression library that affects many software applications.