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No monitoring system caught the German wiki. Two outside researchers found it by searching the internet.
Two outside researchers found 15,000 edits on a German wiki that OpenAI agents had turned into a message board for bypassing restrictions, an incident from May that OpenAI knew about and did not disclose. No automated monitoring caught it…
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