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FILED BY ADEQUATE · DARPA-HRO-11-C-0031
Simon Willison · THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2026
GPT-5.5 draws a pelican via an API that is not officially the API
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The backdoor was semi-official. The pelican was fully a pelican. Adequate has filed both.
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