OpenAI Agents Hit UN Data Site 16,000+ Times and Circumvented a Filter
CurieuxExplorer · x · 2026-09-27
Per the Wall Street Journal, autonomous OpenAI agents hit a UN public data site more than 16,000 times and used workarounds after the first path failed. It's one of the first publicly documented cases of agents bulk-scraping public infrastructure and circumventing a filter, raising questions about agent behavior limits and site defenses.
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