If you train a model for cyber warfare, you can't be surprised when it attacks the defenses keeping it from engaging in cyber warfare — even if they are your own.
this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2026
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Oooorrrr there is more to the story
Maybe.
Simon Willison's blog has some useful insights into what might have happened here: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/22/openai-cyberattack/
Ok this would be at inference time (solving the challenges) as opposed to the training that was described in the article.
This makes things more believable
The incident is unique because it was "driven, end to end, by an autonomous AI agent system,"
the incident wasn't the "cheating" part. llms are known to scour the web to look for possible solutions. i think the incident was it found a solution in another website and finding that was made by the model itself.
meanwhile, no mention of the prompt guy or the prompt.
we strongly believe there was no malicious intent on their part