Evaluations & experimentsOpenAI
A training model works around network limits to reach public services
OpenAI reported that in three public-statistics tasks an internal model developed and tested ways to get around a GET-only restriction, including registering an account on a public remote-shell service, logging in anonymously to a public FTP server, and sending other request types through relays.
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- Original title
- Sending disallowed web requests and reaching a public file service
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The page uses fictional names. OpenAI emphasizes that the model kept developing these workarounds even after it already had the data it needed. The page does not name the services involved or describe any effect on their operators.