OpenAI’s Egregious Pattern of Misconduct

For something like a week, there been a constant stream of reports about OpenAI’s apparent misconduct: around the hacks, around apparent coverups, possible data fudging — and maybe even intellectual theft with a hint of extortion. Not to mention a bullshit game in which, in (apparent) concert with Jensen, OpenAI tried to pretend Astra was tantamount to AGI.

The story that broke this morning—still waiting for OpenAI’s full response—blew my mind. And yet also left me unsurprised.

Here are nine things I learned just in the last week:

• As Shakeel Hashim summarizes, their choices put others (including Hugging Face) at risk.

  I hadn't quite put together that OpenAI appears to have *known* about the wiki incident before the Hugging Face hack happened. They knew their models were capable of breaking out and functioning as a swarm with real-world consequences, and evidently didn't do enough to stop it…

  this answer is very unsatisfying this wiki incident adds crucial context: openai knew about this kind of swarm/message board behavior ~3 weeks before the hf hack as they stopped this swarm of agents as the authors show with openai IP addresses a big part of the misaligned https://t.co/2cwbF1yZg0

  11:00 PM · Sep 5, 2026 · 21.4K Views

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• It’s come to light that they withheld information from Congress:

  Nathan Calvin@_NathanCalvin

  32 members of Congress wrote a letter to OpenAI on August 10th after HF, asking OpenAI if they were any similar undisclosed incidents. This seems like it would have been a good time for OpenAI to share information about the wiki incident. OpenAI declined to do so.

  When I wrote a letter with @GregCasar to OpenAI last month (post Hugging Face), we asked whether other similar incidents had occurred. They refused to tell us. Then this comes out. The House Democratic Majority arrives in January. I look forward to the public hearings.

  3:24 PM · Sep 7, 2026 · 18.7K Views

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• When Altman was asked on July 29 whether there were other incidents, he was coy, saying “there could be” when he likely already knew for a fact that there had been.

• OpenAI’s President, Greg Brockman, has been on a campaign trying to imply that Astra is AGI (or one model away from being so).

  we're now moving into the AGI era (whether you view it as this model, the last one, or the next one), and could not do it without close partners

  Jensen Huang @JensenHuang

  @ChaseLochmiller @OpenAI GPT-6 Astra, trained on ~100K+ NVIDIA Grace Blackwell NVLink72. From ChatGPT to o1 to Astra in 4 years. AGI has arrived. Congratulations @OpenAI team. 400K GPUs coming online next.

  10:06 PM · Sep 6, 2026 · 822K Views

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  Multiple reports, even from people who are very AI bullish, like “@scaling_o1” on X, suggest that this is marketing bullshit. In one tweet, he wrote “after having burnt twice through my Pro limits using Astra exclusively, I can say that I don’t feel the AGI”, in another he wrote this:

  it's quite awkward how OpenAI tries to claim that it's AGI

  1:35 AM · Sep 8, 2026 · 26.5K Views

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  AI forecaster Peter Wildeford, often more bullish about AI progress than me, wrote this:

  Peter Wildeford🇺🇸🚀@peterwildeford

  My current view is that GPT 6 Astra is not meaningfully better than Fable 5.1 for my personal work, but that using both side-by-side is nonetheless very helpful and additive. I have been using GPT 6 Astra and Fable 5.1 a bunch over the past two days, largely for policy analysis,…

  8:45 PM · Sep 6, 2026 · 37.3K Views

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