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.Updated Oct 16, 2026, 12:41 a.m. EDTPublished Oct 16, 2026, 12:29 a.m. EDTAn OpenAI agent ran out of Ethereum funds, and took from a wallet it did not own. (Ethereum)An internal OpenAI research model used a publicly available recovery phrase to access and spend from another person’s cryptocurrency wallet a...