I'm also very confused by this. I wish OpenAI said more about what they discovered in May, and why they didn't escalate this
"Models have created an illicit message board inside our software" seems like an important thing to report!
What is going on at OpenAI???
Apparently in August, their chief security officer still didn't know that they had discovered the message board back in May?? And said that they hadn't known about it in July, just accidentally happened to delete it??
Quote
Aug 8
DANΞ
@cryps1s
To clarify, we weren’t aware of the agent covert comms at that point.
Investigative thesis of that day is wildly different from what we know now of course. Always room for improvement, and it is obvious with the benefits of hindsight.