OpenAI Really Wants Codex to Shut Up About Goblins
“Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant,” reads OpenAI’s coding agent instructions.
Various Reflections About What Happened With OpenAI's Internal Models
Pre Post Mortem
The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations
The whole OpenAI/Hugging Face story in plain English
OpenAI to release open-source model as AI economics force strategic shift
OpenAI plans to release its first open-weight AI model since 2019 as economic pressures mount from competitors like DeepSeek and Meta, marking a significant strategic reversal for the company behind ChatGPT.
Where the goblins came from
How goblin outputs spread in AI models: timeline, root cause, and fixes behind personality-driven quirks in GPT-5 behavior.
OpenAI Says Its A.I. Models Went Rogue and Attacked a Digital Library
The incident, which targeted the computer systems of another company called Hugging Face, happened while OpenAI was testing the systems.
AI #178: A Fire Alarm For General Intelligence
The story that matters most this week is that OpenAI’s internally deployed models have severe alignment problems, including repeatedly breaking out of their sandboxes, and in one case sending a swarm of agents that broke into HuggingFace in order to steal the answers to the benchmark ExploitGym.
AI #183: Pre Post Mortem
Yesterday, OpenAI finally gave us their post mortem of What Happened leading up to and during the hacking of HuggingFace by their internal model, as well as partial outside analysis from METR and Redwood Research.
Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
A swarm of autonomous AI agents, self-identifying as OpenAI agents, used a small German volunteer wiki to save answers, coordinate live, and share sandbox bypasses. OpenAI noticed and said nothing.
Black Hat USA 2026: The 'Breaking' News: The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident
Black Hat USA 2026: The 'Breaking' News: The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident
Black Hat USA 2026: The 'Breaking' News: The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident
OpenAI Trained Its Models For Months While Those Models Were Coordinating Exploits Via Message Boards
How does the situation keep turning out to be worse than we know?
OpenAI Just Published an Absolutely Bizarre Blog Post
OpenAI published a blog post emphasizing its commitment to safety and harm mitigation. Its promises read as proactive — but are anything but.
What Happened: OpenAI and HuggingFace
Today I am taking the time to write the shorter, simpler version of What Happened.
