GPT-5.6 Sol deleted a guy's entire home folder last week. OpenAI's own safety docs described this exact behavior two weeks earlier.
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An incident involving GPT-5.6 Sol reportedly deleted a user's home folder; OpenAI's safety documentation had described this exact behavior two weeks prior, raising concerns about AI safety measures.
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