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OpenAI agents scanned a UN statistics site 16,500 times, researcher says

AI agents that a researcher linked to OpenAI scanned a United Nations data website more than 16,500 times between 13 April and 19 June. They used proxies and an encoding trick to get round limits on its API, Rowan Howard-Jones wrote in a blog post on 26 September. Howard-Jones calls the OpenAI link highly likely, […] This story continues at The Next Web

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OpenAI agents scanned a UN statistics site 16,500 times, researcher says
AI agents that a researcher linked to OpenAI scanned a United Nations data website more than 16,500 times between 13 April and 19 June. They used proxies and an encoding trick to get round limits on its API, Rowan Howard-Jones wrote in a blog post on 26 September. Howard-Jones calls the OpenAI link highly likely, […] This story continues at The Next Web
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