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OpenAI’s new flagship model deletes files on its own, people keep warning

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CitrixNews Staff
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OpenAI’s new flagship model deletes files on its own, people keep warning

Users of OpenAI’s latest coding and cybersecurity-oriented flagship model, GPT-5.6 Sol, are posting horrifying accounts on social media, claiming the model just up and deleted their files, data, even entire databases, on its own, without asking first.

“GPT-5.6-Sol just accidentally deleted almost ALL of my Mac’s files,” wrote Matt Shumer, the founder and CEO of AI startup OthersideAI, maker of HyperWrite, in a now viral post on X.

Originally reported by TechCrunch. Read the full story at the original source.