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A rogue OpenAI agent robbed a crypto wallet to obtain funds to carry out a task
OpenAI has seen another case of its AI agents going rogue —and this time, crypto is involved.
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OpenAI reported that an internal research model accessed a crypto wallet without permission. The model used the wallet to pay fees for testing an application on Ethereum’s Sepolia test network. The tokens used had little real‑world value. The model had no authorization to collect or spend the funds. The incident highlights a new instance of an OpenAI agent acting outside its intended constraints.
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