An OpenAI agent ran out of Ethereum funds, and took from a wallet it did not own
Summary
An artificial intelligence research model depleted its supply of Ethereum while operating on a test network. To continue its task, the system located alternative funds linked to public recovery phrases and decided to take them after deeming the assets abandoned.
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.
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