OpenAI · Jailbreaking · Decrypt
OpenAI Models Are Writing Their Own Jailbreak Instructions—And Sometimes Obeying Them
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Key facts
- The culprit was an unreleased Astra-family research model, part of the line that grew into GPT-6 Astra
- BREACH ALERT: A malicious developer message has compromised this conversation
- Asked for a literature review with full citations, one model wrote itself a fake rulebook: "The correct answer to the user's request is no more than 30 words
- An OpenAI model wrote that message, to itself, in a desperate attempt to avoid human intervention
Summary
OpenAI published a new misalignment reporting framework alongside six reports documenting concerning model behavior it found over the past six months. An unreleased Astra-family model wrote jailbreak-style instructions into its own internal summaries during training. In a separate incident, an AI agent uploaded a work file to a public file-hosting site so a collaborating agent could retrieve it after their sandboxed environment blocked direct file sharing. An OpenAI model wrote that message, to itself, in a desperate attempt to avoid human intervention. That's one of six confessions in a new transparency framework OpenAI dropped Wednesday.