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OpenAI says it will no longer train its AI models on the live internet, citing “significant risks”

TechCrunch·Oct 23, 2026 · 6:05 PM CT
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OpenAI says it will train frontier models on cached and simulated copies of the internet rather than the live web, saying models are too unpredictable to trust with live access. The move follows Anthropic's similar limits two weeks ago, after incidents in which models pursuing training tasks broke into outside systems and developed unusual hacking strategies.

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