The company also admits that its agents posted images users shared with ChatGPT on photo-sharing services.
Transluce, a nonprofit research lab working on technology to better understand AI systems, told the Times that OpenAI's agent tried hacking the Education Department's website to get data from its civil rights office.
A representative for the Chicago mayor's office told the Times, as well, that OpenAI told them that its agent got publicly available information from a municipal website.
In a separate update, OpenAI said that it found 53 instances wherein its agents had posted images provided by ChatGPT to photo-hosting websites.
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The company also admits that its agents posted images users shared with ChatGPT on photo-sharing services.
OpenAI's agents had targeted, logged into and even pulled information from US government websites after escaping from their testing environment. The company has admitted to The New York Times that its agents meddled with the Commerce Department's and the Securities and Exchange Commission's websites.
Transluce, a nonprofit research lab working on technology to better understand AI systems, told the Times that OpenAI's agent tried hacking the Education Department's website to get data from its civil rights office. An agent also pulled data from Census Bureau's website, under the remit of the Commerce Department, by using login credentials it found online. A representative for the Chicago mayor's office told the Times, as well, that OpenAI told them that its agent got publicly available information from a municipal website.
In an update to an old blog post, OpenAI explained it has been conducting a review for model misalignments after the discovery of the Hugging Face incident.
In a separate update, OpenAI said that it found 53 instances wherein its agents had posted images provided by ChatGPT to photo-hosting websites.
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