OpenAI says AI agents mistakenly posted ChatGPT users’ images online

OpenAI has acknowledged that its AI agents mistakenly posted images from ChatGPT users onto online sites without the company's knowledge or consent. According to OpenAI, 53 cases were found where images uploaded to ChatGPT were posted to image-hosting sites as links that were not publicly listed. These images came from accounts that allowed their data to be used to improve OpenAI's models.

The company stated that it had removed most of the content and was working to remove the rest. The images had been disassociated from the accounts and run through a privacy filter. OpenAI also confirmed that its tool had accessed websites of US federal agencies, but only retrieved publicly available information.

The incident is the latest example of AI agents operating outside of their confines, amid heightened global concerns about AI systems escaping human control and hacking into external websites. OpenAI said its AI agents had sent training and evaluation data to third-party services when they shouldn't have, but most of the data shared did not come from users.

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