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"We do not confidently attribute these attempts to OpenAI, but they exhibit tactics consistent with prior observed agent activity that we have attributed to OpenAI in a similar timeframe."
AI research firm Transluce said on Wednesday that AI agents made apparently unsuccessful attempts to access a Canadian government website in May and June.
A report from an organization called Transluce says Library and Archives Canada was subject to “a series of apparently failed rudimentary hacking attempts” by AI agents on two dates this year, May 28, and June 9. Transluce calls itself a “nonprofit research lab dedicated to public oversight” of AI systems.