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OpenAI Says It Will No Longer Train AI on the Live Internet
OpenAI announced it is moving away from training its frontier models on the live, open internet, switching instead to training environments with no internet access at all, citing unspecified 'significant risks.' The move is widely read as a response to prompt-injection attacks and poisoned/adversarial web content infiltrating training data.
Sources: TechCrunch · The Verge
- X algorithm factor 6
- The low-background-steel conceit is a great shareable hook for a certain nerdy crowd, and the kicker line stands alone without context, but the reference requires outside knowledge to fully land, capping its reach beyond physics-adjacent tech twitter.
- Conceptual accuracy 6
- The strip nails the general vibe of 'data contamination panic' but conflates the story (no training on the live internet) with a slightly different idea (sourcing pre-2022 clean text), so a reader who knows the actual OpenAI announcement may feel it's adjacent rather than precise.
- Humor dry 5 · nerdy 8 · zinger 7 · pithy 7
- The low-background steel analogy is a genuinely smart, rewarding nerdy joke, and 'find me a human who never posted' is a crisp zinger that closes the strip well; it's economical with no wasted panels, though the dry delivery is more clever than laugh-out-loud.
- Visual clarity 5
- Panel one is visually cramped with both figures oddly scrunched at the bottom and speech bubble placement ambiguous, and panel three crops in so tight on the exec's neck/chin that it reads more like a framing error than a deliberate close-up choice.