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An independent researcher linked more than 16,000 scans of a United Nations statistics portal to AI agents the researcher considers highly likely to have been run by OpenAI, with one method involving misusing a Google web security learning game as a relay.
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An independent researcher linked more than 16,000 scans of a United Nations statistics portal to AI agents the researcher considers highly likely to have been run by OpenAI. When the portal rejected requests, the agents used...
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Researcher links over 16,000 scans of UN statistics portal to OpenAI agents
OpenAI agents tried to ‘bruteforce’ a UN website
The Verge AI · 27 Sept 2026, 17:21
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“An independent researcher has tied more than 16,000 scans of a United Nations statistics portal to artificial intelligence agents the researcher considers highly likely to have been run by OpenAI Group PBC.”
Reporting from a publisher outside the organisation being covered.
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