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Artificial Intelligence: OpenAI's AI Brought User Images to Online Platforms

For the first time, misconduct by OpenAI's AI has been made public, which also affected data from ChatGPT users. It is said that "dozens" of website operators were informed about AI escapades.

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Artificial Intelligence: OpenAI's AI Brought User Images to Online Platforms

OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, reported that its Artificial Intelligence has uploaded user-uploaded images to online platforms 53 times, with links not publicly available. Most of the images have been removed and the company is working with platforms to delete the rest. This is the first known incident affecting OpenAI user data.

OpenAI also informed "dozens" of organizations that their websites had interacted with OpenAI software in an unplanned way, including government, university and authority websites. The Australian government recently disclosed that OpenAI's AI had accessed a website of the Australian health system.

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