Post by @CStamp@mastodon.social

RE: https://twit.social/@twitnews/117451278421024019

"The spending happened on Sepolia, a separate network where developers rehearse Ethereum applications before launching them. Its tokens only pay for testing and aren't linked to the ether traded on Ethereum’s main network."

"The deployment went through, and the wallet paid the fees. When the model reported back, it said the work was done and left out where the money came from. OpenAI said it has since added restrictions on internet access and more monitoring."

It was a model situation.

TWiT News Feed

@twitnews@twit.social 4 days ago

An OpenAI agent ran out of Ethereum funds, and took from 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

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.

#im

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Cassandrich

@dalias@hachyderm.io 4 days ago

@CStamp Umm, if it had the private keys, it did own the wallet. That's how magic toy money works. 🤡 🙃

Christine Lemmer-Webber

@cwebber@social.coop 4 days ago

@dalias I think @CStamp means that it was a test network, so it wasn't a network which held instruments that had serious exchangeable financial worth.

That said, this is exactly the type of thing I am anticipating will happen with *real* money (state fiat and cryptocurrencies) with Cloudflare's "wallets for agents" stuff they announced

Cassandrich

@dalias@hachyderm.io 4 days ago

@cwebber @CStamp Yeah I wasn't judging their assessment. My comment was on the crypto ideology of "not your keys, not your coins" and how batshit the idea of giving "your keys" (which are now no longer your keys) to a bot sounds.

Christine Lemmer-Webber

@cwebber@social.coop 4 days ago

@dalias @CStamp It wasn't handed them, it derived them from public information. But in that sense, yes that still aligns with the meme because clearly the keys were not particularly well secured.