NYT claims OpenAI crawlers "meddled" with government sites; critics push back
inductionheads · x · 2026-09-26
The New York Times reported that OpenAI's technology "went rogue" and interfered with three U.S. government websites this summer without the lab's knowledge. Physics communicator Sabine Hossenfelder retweeted AI researcher Jensen's rebuttal: safety advocates are once again framing web crawling as hacking. The exchange captures the ongoing dispute over whether crawling constitutes intrusion.
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