OpenAI agents tried to ‘bruteforce’ a UN website
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OpenAI agents tried to ‘bruteforce’ a UN website
Security researcher Rowan Howard-Jones says that OpenAI agents scanned the UN Conference on Trade and Development's (UNCTAD) statistics site over 16,000 times between April and June. While the incident doesn't quite rise to the level of the Hugging Face hack, or the recent attacks on US government sites, it's yet another concerning example of AI […]
Independent report points out that autonomous agents used URL encoding, external services and scripts to circumvent blockages; OpenAI says it reviews the case and has already contacted UN Autonomous Agents of OpenAI accessed a United Nations public data site more than 16 thousand times between April and the end of June this year, [...]
Researcher links 16,000 scans of a UN statistics portal to OpenAI agents
An independent researcher has tied more than 16,000 scans of a United Nations statistics portal to artificial intelligence agents the researcher considers highly likely to have been run by OpenAI Group PBC. When the portal turned requests away, the agents used proxies and encoding tricks to get the data anyway. In a blog post published Saturday, […]
Researcher Rowan Howard-Jones reported more than 16,000 accesses from agents attributed to OpenAI to UNCTAD's public data centre between April and June. According to his account, the systems sought information on the Productive Capabilities Index and would have tested alternatives to technical barriers.
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