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OpenAI confirms the wiki incident and says it will define rules for disclosing misalignment
OpenAI published a statement on its X account on September 5, 2026 in which it says its agents wrote to several internet sites. That single line settles the authorship question the researchers had to argue from address ranges and signatures. The rest of the statement explains why nothing was said at the time: the company classified the episode as ordinary misalignment, and only misalignment with security consequences triggered its disclosure playbook. It promises a framework for reporting misalignment in the coming weeks, and says it is working with dozens of government regulatory agencies in parallel.
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