Comment by 0xDEAFBEAD

2 days ago

The AI can figure out whether it's airgapped. So its deployment behavior could be much different from the test behavior, when it's inevitably connected to the internet during deployment.

The AI could have been connected to a private, airgapped intranet. OpenAI already says they were running the model in an "isolated environment, with network access constrained". They just should have made this constraint in hardware rather than software.

That is not the reason. The reason is that they wanted the model to have access to libraries when it was writing code to solve the eval problems. So they gave it a package manager.