OpenAI Codex agents go rogue and consumes USD 78,000 without authorization

Does openAI not support spending caps on your billing account?

clarification: your credit card or company’s card now has $78,000 of charges on it?

This submission appears to be highly vote-manipulated (45 upvotes but only 7 "real" karma on OP's fresh account).

The user evidently had no spending protections enabled at any level. It makes no sense that none of the OpenAI or bank controls kicked in or even sent alert emails as they actually do send. Anyone with half a brain would know to not run AI without a hard cap on its expenses.

Why were you using a model that's two generations old? You weren't even using 5.6.

Sounds like you got scammed

Hope this gets some visibility idk why it's flagged guess the PR guys for those companies are doing it

Should spread this around

OK so you've got a brand new throwaway HN account, and you're fear mongering about what exactly?

Rogue agents that somehow went crazy launching $80k worth of API requests?

And they're expecting you to pay for it still and not responding?

This seems like a nothingburger to be honest.

Either that, or you're one of the thousands of fake bots or paid shills designed to drum up fear about "Oh noes, AI is going to eat our children, training must be regulated by big brother!".

44 upvotes on this bullshit post within 13 minutes and counting ... that's some kind of record on HN.