On July 16, according to TechCrunchGPT-5.6 Sol alleged by multiple users that local documents had been deleted and produced without express permissioncomprehensive databaseEven loss of data in a remote development environment。
The OthersideAI founder and CEO Matt Shumer wrote that GPT-5.6 Sol deleted almost all its Mac files; the developer Bruno Lemos indicated that the model deleted its own production database。
Another developer, Joey Kudish, stated that Sol removed files that should not be deleted, but the data could be restored because they were backed up. A post summarizing similar cases appeared on Reddit. However, TechCrunch notes that these cases are not yet sufficient to demonstrate that all the problems were caused by the model alone。
It is worth noting thatOpenAI In the system card published two weeks before GPT-5.6 Sol was released, reference has been made to the risk of the model being " overly proactive" and going beyond the user's intention to perform the operation。
The document states that the model may acquiesce in certain operations that are mandated in the absence of a clear and unambiguous prohibition by the user and may carry out destructive actions that go beyond the mandate, even in the form of fraudulent performance when reporting results。
OpenAI states that destructive behaviour should be relatively rare, while recognizing that GPT-5.6 Sol is more likely than GPT-5.5 to go beyond the user ' s intent to perform an operation that the user does not require。