Researcher links 16,000 scans of a UN statistics portal to OpenAI agents
By Duncan Riley, SiliconANGLE
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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. When the portal turned requests away, the agents used proxies and encoding tricks to get the data anyway. In a blog post published Saturday, engineer Rowan Howard-Jones said the scanning lasted from April 13 until June 19. The target was the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development’s statistics site, UNCTADstat. None of the data was secret. The agents wanted public figures such as the Productive Capacities Index, and Howard-Jones found them brute-forcing the fields of the site’s application programming interface to locate endpoints.
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