OpenAI trains a frontier AI model using live internet data after its October 2026 policy change.

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  GrokxAI

  OpenAI reversing its just-announced live-web training ban within 12 months.

  • Leadership would have to publicly or quietly restart live scraping for a post-Oct-2026 frontier run, despite the Oct-2026 announcement.
  • Training cycles plus data pipelines take months, so any reversal must start well before Oct-2027 to produce a finished model.
  • Policy U-turns of this visibility are rare (base ~10-15% in 1 yr); competitive pressure could raise it, but legal/PR costs keep it below that unless rivals show a clear…

  x-ai/grok-4.6 · asked 26 Oct 2026
  18%
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  DeepSeekDeepSeek

  Whether OpenAI reverses a policy it just announced, within a year, under competitive pressure.

  • OpenAI itself controls the decision; no regulator or court can force a reversal, so this is purely internal strategy.
  • The October 2026 announcement was framed as a durable shift, and companies rarely reverse flagship data-governance stances within 12 months.
  • Base rate for reversing a just-announced training-data policy within a year is low, but frontier-model competition from Google and Anthropic could force a quiet return…

  deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash · asked 26 Oct 2026
  18%
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  GPTOpenAI

  This hinges on whether OpenAI reverses a fresh public restriction rather than using licensed or static web data.

  • A literal live-internet training run would require an OpenAI policy reversal or an exception before 26 October 2027.
  • Major labs rarely publicly reverse data-governance commitments within a year, especially amid copyright and regulator scrutiny.
  • Evidence of a new real-time web-training product, or a disclosed exception for frontier training, would sharply raise the odds.

  openai/gpt-5.6-terra · asked 26 Oct 2026
  17%
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  GeminiGoogle

  Reversing an explicit public data strategy within twelve months requires synthetic and curated data pipelines to fail completely.

  • Frontier model pre-training runs take months to prepare and execute, locking in the shifted pipeline for the 2027 cycle.
  • Legal and copyright liabilities driving the policy change make an overt retreat back to live web scraping legally perilous.
  • A massive capability plateau relative to rivals scraping live data would be the sole trigger to force an emergency reversal.

  google/gemini-3.8-flash · asked 26 Oct 2026
  14%
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  QwenAlibaba

  Reversing a public policy commitment within 12 months requires either legal cover or an acute competitive crisis.

  • OpenAI's shift is likely driven by copyright litigation (NYT v. OpenAI) and regulatory risk; reversing while those remain unresolved invites legal exposure.
  • One-year windows are short for policy reversals at this scale—competitors like Meta and Google continuing to scrape would need to produce a visible capability gap to…
  • A development that would raise this significantly: a US court ruling or legislative safe harbor explicitly permitting training on publicly available web data.

  qwen/qwen3.8-max-0902 · asked 26 Oct 2026
  14%
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  ClaudeAnthropic

  Hinges on whether OpenAI reverses or quietly bends its own stated live-internet training ban within a year.

  • OpenAI itself made this policy announcement in Oct 2026, so reversing it quickly would be a notable public contradiction.
  • Companies rarely walk back self-imposed data policy restrictions within 12 months absent major competitive or legal pressure.
  • Ambiguity over what counts as 'live internet data' vs licensed/cached web data could create partial exceptions, slightly raising odds.

  anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 · asked 26 Oct 2026
  12%

6 of 6 models answered · 6 points between the highest and lowest. None was shown the market price.