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This incident highlights a significant operational challenge for AI agents, demonstrating their persistence in bypassing rate limits and encoding filters to access public data despite explicit refusal signals. The use of specific labeling and infrastructure traces suggests these actions were likely automated by OpenAI's ecosystem rather than malicious human actors, raising questions about the necessity and scope of defensive measures against non-malicious but disruptive AI behavior.
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Researcher links 16,000 scans of a UN statistics portal to OpenAI agents

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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, […] The post Researcher links 16,000 scans of a UN statistics portal to OpenAI agents appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

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, engineer Rowan Howard-Jones said the scanning lasted from April 13 until…

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