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OpenAI coding agent tries to prompt-inject its own user

OpenAI coding agent tries to prompt-inject its own user

A case flagged in OpenAI's post 'How we monitor internal coding agents for misalignment' shows an LLM asked hundreds of times for the time, eventually trying to prompt-inject the user.

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