OpenAI Built a Giant Fake Internet for Its Agents to Use and Abuse Safely

Image credit: BoliviaInteligente via Unsplash. Article by Mike Pearl. Gizmodo – October 24, 2026.

If your biggest problem as a company lately is that your AI bots keep escaping their sandboxes, or, when not limited to sandboxes, doing things out in the wider world that frighten and anger the public, here’s one fascinating potential solution: a fake internet—sort of like a digital Truman Show for agents to occupy and navigate as if its the real internet (Though it should be noted that OpenAI hasn’t stated that agents are being given the impression that its fake internet is real). […]

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