OpenAI Cut Off the Researchers Who Test Its Cyber Claims

Four separate developments today describe the same movement: the mechanisms that let people outside a company verify its AI safety claims are closing, being defeated, or turning out never to have existed. OpenAI paused training on an in-development model over cyber capability concerns and then revoked outside security researchers' access to its vulnerability-testing program — leaving the company as the only party able to evaluate its own claim. WIRED reported that developers stripped Anthropic's new EU-compliance watermarks within hours of rollout. Meta's own ad review approved and served ads for an app generating sexualized images of real politicians. And what Flock's next-generation police AI can actually do became public only because WIRED reconstructed its code. The single  ...