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OpenAI agents aggressively accessed UN data website more than 16,000 times
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- Sep 27, 2026, 1:35 AM UTC
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OpenAI agents flooded a United Nations website with search requests and employed multiple aggressive methods to access data from the system in June, an independent research report published Saturday found, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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The agents were searching for publicly available information but became increasingly aggressive when they encountered restrictions.