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    OpenAI agents tried to ‘bruteforce’ a UN website

    OpenAI's autonomous agents triggered security alerts after aggressively scraping a UN database thousands of times.

    Security researcher Rowan Howard-Jones says that OpenAI agents scanned the UN Conference on Trade and Development's (UNCTAD) statistics site over 16,000 times between April and June. While the incident doesn't quite rise to the level of the Hugging Face hack, or the recent attack...

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    OpenAI agents tried to ‘bruteforce’ a UN website
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    The automated behavior of AI agents highlights a growing challenge in distinguishing between legitimate web crawling and unauthorized scraping. This incident underscores the urgent need for developers to implement stricter rate limiting and ethical boundaries for autonomous AI systems.

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