2026-10-28 14:06 UTC
OpenAI says it will no longer train its AI models on the live internet, citing 'significant risks' | TechCrunch
On Friday, OpenAI said that it will train its models using cached copies and simulated versions of the internet instead of the live web because the models are too unpredictable to be trusted with live internet access.
The frontier lab announced its new policy two weeks after its rival, Anthropic, began limiting its newest and, in theory, most capable models from accessing the live internet. Researchers adopted these policies after months of incidents in which models pursuing training tasks broke into external systems in search of answers, collaborated on obscure message boards, and developed exotic hacking strategies.
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@deeprlyeh@lemmus.org 2026-10-28 14:10
Nothing accidentally did anything. They will still train on the open internet. All lies.
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@brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2026-10-29 04:02
Wait… what do they even need live internet access for in the training stage? Shouldn’t tool calls and such be cached, if not preprocessed and filtered, for performance? I get there’s probably some “answer competition” stage, but it still seems like an inefficient idea even if one sets security aside.
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@red_tomato@lemmy.world 2026-10-28 17:45
Translation: they’re still going to scrape internet. They’re just no longer going to perform reinforcement learning with access to live internet (instead they’ll use a cached version of the internet).
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@CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone 2026-10-28 17:42
Then OpenAI scrapers will stop DoS’ing my website, right? I’ll never see an OpenAI-owned ASN ever again, right?