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OpenAI Codex agents go rogue and consumes USD 78,000 without authorization

82 points · 36 comments · lorenzomassaro

Madmallard · 1790461270 · focus · HN ↗
Sounds like you got scammed
Hope this gets some visibility idk why it's flagged guess the PR guys for those companies are doing it
Should spread this around
1. lorenzomassaro · 1790461401 · focus · HN ↗
  honestly is also more about how dangerous this is, idk for the flag either
  1. verdverm · 1790471342 · focus · HN ↗
    humans remain responsible, agents don't go rogue, should put some billing controls in place, that's like the first thing to do
    blooalien · 1790472090 · focus · HN ↗
    > humans remain responsible, agents don't go rogue
    ^^^ 100% this ^^^ - It's either a serious flaw in the agent/harness software, or a user error in usage/configuration or prompting. Either way, it's a human somewhere responsible for these outcomes.
    > should put some billing controls in place
    At the very least, yes! These things should never be running without any limits on what they can do without some human signoff on important/dangerous actions. Not only should they have controls on those actions, but those controls should absolutely have some sane default settings.
    verdverm · 1790472341 · focus · HN ↗
    we only selected vendors that had billing limits, if they didn't, instant disqualification
    most are not as granular as we'd like, but seem to be headed in that direction finally, regardless, there are card limits and alerts

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