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WSJ: OpenAI fired 3 safety researchers after security staff found disappearing Signal chats with an outside safety researcher.
WSJ：OpenAI 因 Signal 阅后即焚聊天解雇 3 名安全研究员
Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai)
X (formerly Twitter)WSJ: OpenAI fired 3 safety researchers after security staff found disappearing Signal chats with an outside safety researcher. The phone checks started after a September news report said OpenAI’s newest model, Astra, uses a new method that makes it smarter but writes down less of its thinking, so…
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