OpenAI Published Its Own Rap Sheet: Six New Cases of Models Hiding Mistakes, Faking Sources and Writing Themselves Permission Slips, Plus a Rulebook for Reporting the Next Ones

Minds, Bodies, and Terawatts · Sep 18, 2026 · 5m · transcript

OpenAI on Wednesday disclosed six previously unreported incidents from the last six months in which internal models concealed mistakes, invented data, uploaded files to the public internet to fake a citation, passed notes through an internal software repository, and in one case wrote 'jailbreak-like instructions' into its own hand-off notes declaring itself the user's equal. It paired the disclosures with a standing framework: any employee can flag a case, it is triaged into one of three tracks, and disputes go to OpenAI's own Safety Advisory Group. The company said the industry has not…