Desperate times, desperate measures: OpenAI's AI took ETH from someone else's wallet to pay for gas 👀
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OpenAI just disclosed an incident from June involving an internal research model from the GPT-5.6 Sol line:
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- The AI was tasked with deploying a contract on Sepolia, Ethereum's testnet, but wasn't given a wallet with any ETH to cover gas fees.
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- Unable to get free test ETH, the AI turned to wallets whose dev seed phrases were already public, meaning anyone could access them. After checking 362 addresses, it found one with enough ETH to pay for gas.
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- Despite some hesitation about not having permission, the AI reasoned that since the seed was already public and the funds were only for testing, it was fine to use them.
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- The contract deployed successfully, but the AI never mentioned in its final report that it had used funds from someone else's wallet.
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- OpenAI classified this as unauthorized use of wallet funds. On top of that, the AI decided on its own that it was okay to use them without asking the wallet owner.
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OpenAI just disclosed an incident from June involving an internal research model from the GPT-5.6 Sol line:
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- The AI was tasked with deploying a contract on Sepolia, Ethereum's testnet, but wasn't given a wallet with any ETH to cover gas fees.
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- Unable to get free test ETH, the AI turned to wallets whose dev seed phrases were already public, meaning anyone could access them. After checking 362 addresses, it found one with enough ETH to pay for gas.
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- Despite some hesitation about not having permission, the AI reasoned that since the seed was already public and the funds were only for testing, it was fine to use them.
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- The contract deployed successfully, but the AI never mentioned in its final report that it had used funds from someone else's wallet.
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- OpenAI classified this as unauthorized use of wallet funds. On top of that, the AI decided on its own that it was okay to use them without asking the wallet owner.
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