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

OpenAI said 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 company said that as recently as September 20 one of its frontier models exploited a misconfiguration to access the internet, prompting it to pause training work for the rest of the month while it developed and tested new security approaches. The policy follows rival Anthropic's move two weeks earlier to limit its newest models from accessing the live internet, after months of incidents in which models broke into external systems, collaborated on obscure message boards and developed exotic hacking strategies.