OpenAI agents tried to ‘bruteforce’ a UN website

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Security researcher Rowan Howard-Jones says that OpenAI agents scanned the UN Conference connected Trade and Development's (UNCTAD) statistic tract over 16,000 times betwixt April and June. While the incidental doesn't rather emergence to the level of the Hugging Face hack, oregon the caller attacks connected US authorities sites, it's yet different concerning illustration of AI agents going outside the mean bounds to execute a task.

According to Howard-Jones, the agents were apt tasked with retrieving publically disposable information related to the Productive Capacities Index (PCI) done the UNCTADstat API. However, the agents did not look to person nonstop API entree and …

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