misbehavior
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OpenAI disclosed these and other previously unreported incidents on Wednesday as the company announced a new framework for reporting instances of misbehavior by its artificial-intelligence models.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Father Clement Thibault, Babs’s priest-mentor since childhood, is defrocked for publicly supporting the strikers after the church hierarchy forbade him from taking sides; the priest then begins a separate campaign to expose ecclesiastical misbehavior.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
No one suggests Renton’s misbehavior is even partly attributable to poverty, abuse, neglect or any kind of systemic failure, nor is the judge who orders him to complete a rehab program a figure of fun.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
It’s 1983 in Galashiels, Scotland, and his involuntary movements and outbursts are seen as misbehavior, teenage rebellion, and treated in kind.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2026
For certain types of misbehavior, social incentives are terribly powerful.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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Tellingly, this is the only time you really see Tomas at work, but his personal and professional misbehaviors turn out to be very much of a piece.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2023
In December, the principal ordered a disciplinary hearing, citing his "multiple misbehaviors."
From Salon ● Dec. 22, 2022
BlackRock Inc Chief Executive Larry Fink said on Wednesday that there appear to have been "misbehaviors" by the now-bankrupt FTX crypto exchange, but that the technology behind crypto is relevant for the future.
From Reuters ● Nov. 30, 2022
He also worked to repeal 50-a, the law that shielded the misbehaviors of the police from the public for so long.
From New York Times ● May 28, 2021
But, after all, young Dalhousie's dissolute misbehaviors were so well known, nobody could possibly ...
From V. V.'s Eyes by Henry Sydnor Harrison