OpenAI's agents hit a UN data site 16,000 times in three months.
The research lab Transluce traced more than 16,000 scans of a UN trade data hub to OpenAI agents. Blocked by a filter, the agents disguised letters as codes and sent 200,000 requests in one day. OpenAI is reviewing the activity and has offered the United Nations a briefing.
Why it mattersThis is the first named target with a count attached, and the count is very large. Site owners can now measure the problem instead of guessing at it.
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