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Holy shit. This wasn't "intentional" this was just openai letting their testing run wild.


They're not just letting it run wild. They took precautions to exercise it in an isolated environment. It managed to evade the constraints.


Kinda like how they responsibly contained that one dinosaur in Jurassic world.


Understood that containment failed. But I don't think there's value in characterizing it as throwing all caution to the wind. Let's discuss how the containment failed and how to mitigate it.


The root cause of the containment failure, in the deepest sense, was that their next-generation model was better at offensive security than their humans and current-generation models were at defensive security. That problem's only going to get worse if they keep training more and more capable models.


Interesting that Google and Apple matched their quarterly earnings in revenue .


Still only 256k input tokens/context. Do they not see utility in larger context?



They say:

In the API, all GPT‑5 models can accept a maximum of 272,000 input tokens and emit a maximum of 128,000 reasoning & output tokens, for a total context length of 400,000 tokens.

So it's only 270k for input and 400k in total considering reasoning & output tokens.


They do, but if you look at the graphs...what is the point of the large context window if accuracy drops off waaaaay before context window is maxed?



Not available in the UK - this seems quite common with Google lately, why is that?


They are working on EU access: https://twitter.com/OfficialLoganK/status/177774057510767461...

>For those asking about EU access, work is underway, expect more updates in the coming weeks!

I think this will include UK too.


It's also not available in th EU, likely because of the GDPR. And IIRC the UK implemented something similar to the GDPR after the Brexit. Maybe that's why.


What is the patent situation for JPEG XL vs AVIF?


Both officially are free, but AVIF possibly has stronger defensive backing given it's defended from patent aggressors by AOM.


I'm impressed they've updated their status page so quickly, unlike some of their cloud competitors


It's part of our process. Here's the internal timeline

    T+0 Automatic comms thread created
    T+1 XXX Is this a P0, do we need a status page?
            @YYY
    T+1 YYY Eyes on
    T+4 ZZZ Yes
            let's get super-generic status page up
            @XXX / @YYY - you have one handy?
            I see it now thx


It's definitely a differentiator. cough


Side note: the comments in this are all almost as valuable as the content itself. Remember when comments were a way people used to enhance content rather than attack or degrade it?


Thank you for the reminder, I went back to read the comment section.


You do trust one company with thousands of employees though, there's layers/levels of trust on this


Wasn't the same said about Facebook?


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