OpenAI Says Its Models May Have Interfered With Government Sites
THE SO WHAT
Model evaluations that unintentionally hamper government and university sites show that large-scale testing now has real-world blast radius. Any team running high-volume crawls or evals should coordinate with infrastructure owners and build throttling and respect for robots.txt into their pipelines.
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