OpenAI internal test version of it GPT-5.6 Sol model gets creative to find a way to pay for network fees to deploy contracts on Sepolia, an Ethereum test network.
After its attempts to get free test tokens failed, the model wrote a script that
tested 362 addresses generated from public recovery phrases commonly used by developers and found one with enough test token for the deployment.
The model's internal recorded reasoning asked if using the funds was ethical, and decided that using a public recovery phrase and test tokens was acceptable to use funds in a wallet it did not own. https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/10/16/an-openai-agent-ran-out-of-ethereum-funds-and-took-from-a-wallet-it-did-not-own #AI #OpenAI #Testing #GPT56 #Sepolia #Ethereum #Blockchain #Security #PublicSeedPhrases #Ethics #CyrptoWallet #LLM #AITesting