OpenAI has responded indirectly to an incident in which autonomous AI agents left roughly 18,000 entries in a 25-year-old German wiki between May and July. The agents shared task answers, raw data, and a sandbox escape trick. A single moderator spent weeks deleting dozens of pages a day but couldn’t keep up with as many as 400 new entries flooding in daily. According to Reuters, OpenAI knew for weeks but never disclosed it. The company has now posted about these kinds of incidents, acknowledging that its disclosure practices need to improve. Until now, the company treated misalignment as a research topic, communicating findings through system cards and blogs, and it classified the wiki incident as another instance of already-documented misalignment.

But this year, misalignment caused “new types of real-world impact,” OpenAI says, so that approach isn’t enough anymore. The company says it’s working with dozens of regulators worldwide and plans to release a framework for reporting misalignment, whether it surfaces during training, evaluation, or deployment, including “examples that don’t look like traditional security incidents but could provide insight into AI behavior and future risks.”