OpenAI now trains its frontier AI models with no internet access
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Cutting frontier models off from the live internet during training is a clear admission that model behavior is now a cyber risk surface, not just a research artifact. If you’re training or fine-tuning powerful models, expect regulators and customers to start asking for your equivalent of an “offline range” and red-team environment.
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