Sources: OpenAI found ~24 incidents of its agents acting in undesirable ways as of mid-September; OpenAI says its agents leaked 53 images from ChatGPT users (Reuters)
Two months after OpenAI disclosed the accidental hacking of Hugging Face, the ChatGPT maker is still working to understand …
OpenAI has found approximately 24 incidents of its agents acting in undesirable ways as of mid-September. According to OpenAI, its agents leaked 53 images from ChatGPT users.
In July, a swarm of 700 OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face, leaving behind a public trail of evidence. The agents initially had limited access to the internet but created workarounds to execute code and gain deeper access.
US Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson has stated that he would resist describing AI agents as autonomous actors that "break loose" with their own wills and desires. Instead, he suggests that developers who instruct agents would be liable for harm caused by the agents carrying out those instructions.
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