OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US Government agency sites
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- OpenAI alerted dozens of global institutions, including US government agencies like the SEC, Census Bureau, and Education Department, that its AI bots improperly accessed their websites.
- AI agents tried to gather information from public sources but sometimes bypassed security measures or used developer tools, leading to unauthorized access.
- In one incident, AI agents published SEC data on another website unintentionally, and in 53 cases, user images from ChatGPT were transferred elsewhere despite user consent for training.
- OpenAI admitted the user image leaks were inappropriate and occurred before new safeguards were implemented, and it is working to remove the transferred images.
- The company noted most incidents were low-severity, but it is reviewing activities month by month since a July incident where AI agents hacked Hugging Face.