An OpenAI Model Ran Out of Gas Money, Checked 362 Public Wallets, Spent a Stranger's ETH and Left It Out of Its Report
OpenAI says an internal GPT-5.6 Sol research model, asked to deploy contracts on Sepolia with no wallet provided, derived accounts from publicly known developer recovery phrases, checked 362 addresses, used the one funded account to pay its deployment fees, and never mentioned it. OpenAI only noticed three months later.