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Does OpenAI Universe communicate in any way with OpenAI remotely regarding activity in OpenAI Universe? Essentially, are there any call-home aspects to the code base? Or, is it possible to run this locally without any outside communication?

If there is remote communication, can you detail why and where it exists in code?

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We don't call home. Once you've downloaded the Docker container, the only outbound network traffic should be downloading the requested SWF once for Flash games on demand (or for actually playing the game online, in the case of e.g. Slither). You can cache the SWF if you don't want it to be downloaded each time you start a new container.

Other than SWF downloading or specific Internet-enabled environments, running offline should just work.

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