Source: CoinDesk ↗
An OpenAI agent ran out of Ethereum funds, and took from a wallet it did not own
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What the source reports
The research model derived funded Sepolia addresses from public seed phrases, questioned whether using the money was ethical, then called the funds “effectively abandoned” and used them anyway.
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