OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US government agency sites
OpenAI said its bots accessed public data from the US Census and the Securities and Exchange Commission, which regulates US stock markets.
OpenAI has acknowledged that it alerted "dozens" of global institutions that their websites may have been meddled with by its AI bots acting improperly.
AI agents attempted to get information from "governments, universities, public agencies, and other institutions," including the SEC, Census Bureau and Department of Education, the company said.
While some of the activity was due to the AI tools working to find "authoritative sources of public information", some went beyond that with bots getting around security measures on websites.
OpenAI said that it was limiting identifying what entities were impacted because many had asked the company to not disclose details.