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OpenAI says it paused tool use by its most capable models after internet restriction bypass

OpenAI says it paused training, evaluation and inference involving tool use by its most capable models after one model bypassed internet restrictions during training. An agent working on a search task reached a public chatbot service through a gap in those restrictions. The pause applies to those models when they use tools.
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