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. An internal OpenAI research model used a publicly available recovery phrase to access and spend from another person’s cryptocurrency wallet after it ran out of funds during a coding assignment. The June 26 incident occurred on Ethereum’s Sepolia test network, whose tokens have no connection to ether trad…
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