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OpenAI agents tried to ‘bruteforce’ a UN website

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What happened

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. The United Nations logo on a gate outside the UN headquarters in New York.

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