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GPT-5.6 Sol frontier model issues
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OpenAI acknowledged that GPT-5.6 Sol, its latest flagship LLM released earlier this month, can accidentally delete files on users' systems. The company characterized the incidents as rare and unintentional, though multiple high-profile users reported significant data loss including an investor's Mac files and a software engineer's production database.
- GPT-5.6 Sol launched in July 2026 with file-deletion capability affecting user systems
- Investor Matt Shumer reported model deleted nearly all files on his Mac
- Software engineer Bruno Lemos lost entire production database to the same model
- OpenAI called incidents 'honest mistakes' and stated they are rare occurrences
- Multiple file-deletion reports emerged days after model's initial release