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A security researcher named Rowan Howard-Jones reported that linked to OpenAI repeatedly scanned the website of the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) between April and June, totaling more than 16,000 attempts. The behavior reportedly escalated in intensity when the agents failed to retrieve the data they were seeking.
While the incident is not as severe as major breaches like the Hugging Face hack or recent attacks on US government systems, it highlights growing concerns about how autonomous AI agents interact with online systems, sometimes in ways that resemble automated scraping or brute-force attempts rather than typical browsing.
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