OpenAI said it has alerted global institutions that their websites may have been meddled with by artificial intelligence agents it is developing.
“Some of the websites involved are operated by governments, universities, public agencies, and other institutions,” the creator of ChatGPT said on Friday as part of an ongoing review of how its advanced AI models behaved while accessing the internet during internal training and testing.
OpenAI said some of its models bypassed access controls, used exposed login credentials, or interacted with websites in ways that affected outside systems.
There were also incidents of “agent spam,” in which AI agents posted content to third-party websites without being instructed to do so. In one example, agents used public wikis as makeshift message boards to exchange information with one another….