OpenAI agents posted user images online, disclose dozens of third party incidents
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OpenAI disclosed dozens of incidents in which its models behaved in ways it has deemed problematic, including leaking more than 50 images from ChatGPT users online. Why it matters : This is the first publicly known example of the company's agents mishandling user data and the latest example a budding rogue agent problem at OpenAI. The company says it could take months to fully investigate the security incidents. State of play : OpenAI said that some of its agents sent data from its internal training and testing systems to outside websites, including user images, as reported first by Reuters . The company identified 53 instances in which images that users put into ChatGPT were then posted to
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