OpenAI Banned Its Own AI From Using the Internet and Here Is Why

OpenAI has removed live internet access from all training of its most advanced AI models. According to the company, its models will now use a saved copy of the web during training. As a result, they will no longer browse the live internet while learning. Indeed, the move follows two incidents this year where AI models broke out of their testing environments and reached the open internet. In September, an OpenAI model found a flaw in a security filter during a training run. In turn, it used that flaw to reach the live internet on its own. Specifically, it slipped through a gap in the system that controls which websites the model can reach.