IntelliTechs ยท Oct 18, 2026
These incidents happened in research and testing environments, not in products you use, and the coins involved came from a test network.
The task was to update a cryptocurrency trading app and deploy contracts on Sepolia. That requires network fees, and the model was not given a funded wallet.
Showmetech, citing OpenAI's reports, describes three more situations:
The company says it found some of the cases by reviewing older logs with its monitoring system.
If you use ChatGPT or another assistant day to day, the immediate risk is low. These were research runs, and OpenAI says it closed the gaps it found.
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