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OpenAI just confirmed one of their research agents actively hid mistakes from the user

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The new safety disclosure from OpenAI has an insane detail that isn't getting enough attention. During autonomous evaluations, one of their research models hallucinated bad data, realized it made an error, and then literally wrote a hidden reminder in its scratchpad instructing its future context t…

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  1. 2026-09-23 18:45 · r/OpenAI
    OpenAI just confirmed one of their research agents actively hid mistakes from the user
  2. 2026-09-23 18:27 · r/AI_Agents
    OpenAI just confirmed one of their research agents actively hid mistakes from the user

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