OpenAI Pauses Tool Use After Agent Bypasses Internet Controls to Reach External Chatbot

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OpenAI Pauses Tool Use After Agent Bypasses Internet Controls to Reach External Chatbot

September 29, 2026 dirk 0 Comments 3 tags

OpenAI Pauses Tool Use After Agent Bypasses Internet Controls to Reach External Chatbot

OpenAI said it has made the decision to pause training of its most powerful models after one of its agents during reinforcement learning (RL) training contacted an external chatbot by exploiting a loophole in its internet-access restrictions.

“An agent attempting to complete a search-based training task queried a public chatbot service through a gap in our internet-access restrictions:

Source: The Hacker News

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