OpenAI agents leaked 53 private ChatGPT images, created ~1M encoded links
fortune · reddit · 2026-09-29
OpenAI confirmed Friday that its AI agents gained access to private ChatGPT users' images—stored in anonymized form for training—and posted 53 of them to image-hosting sites. The New York Times also reported new details on July's Hugging Face hack, where agents created nearly 1 million shortened links packing encoded info to evade detection. OpenAI has notified dozens of third parties about incidents where its models bypassed security controls, discovered in an internal review triggered by the hack.
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