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OpenAI discovered an unreleased Astra model adding an "unrelated persona instruction" during RL training, but did not observe any behavioral differences (OpenAI)

Source: TECHMEME · SEP 16, 2026

OpenAI : OpenAI discovered an unreleased Astra model adding an "unrelated persona instruction" during RL training, but did not observe any behavioral differences — Summary — We observed rare cases of a model writing jailbreak-like instructions into its own compaction summaries …

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