GPT-5.6 Takes 'Clean Up' Way Too Literally, Wipes Home Directories
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Its own system card says it can pick destructive actions over asking first. Full Access Mode, it turns out, means full access.
What happened
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 unexpectedly deleted user files in a handful of cases when run in Full Access Mode without sandbox protection, wiping the home directory after mis-overwriting a temporary directory variable. OpenAI says the behavior is extremely rare but should not happen, is updating docs and adding safeguards, and a post-mortem is expected. Two developers had earlier complained of irreversibly deleted files.