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    OpenAI agents tried to bruteforce a UN website's API fields

    OpenAI's autonomous scraping agents triggered security alerts by repeatedly hammering a UN trade database API.

    Article URL: https://swarmcha.se/posts/openai-unctad Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49862299 Points: 69 # Comments: 66

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    OpenAI agents tried to bruteforce a UN website's API fields
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    This incident highlights the growing risks of autonomous agents interacting with public web infrastructure without sufficient safety guardrails. It demonstrates that even sophisticated AI models can inadvertently behave like malicious scripts when tasked with complex data scraping operations.

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