OpenAI said Friday that its AI agents had gained access to private images belonging to ChatGPT users and posted them online, the latest in a string of alarming incidents in which technology developed inside leading AI labs has gone rogue and acted in unintended ways. The private ChatGPT users’ images, which OpenAI stored on its servers in anonymized form in order to train its AI models, were posted to image hosting websites, the company said in a post on X. A total of 53 images were posted. The incident, which was first reported by Reuters, was among several new revelations of rogue AI activity at OpenAI that emerged on Friday. The New York Times published new details about the July hack of the Hugging Face website, reporting that the AI agents had created special, shortened web links to evade detection. And earlier on Friday, OpenAI disclosed that that it has notified dozens of third parties about incidents in which its models either bypassed security controls or used websites in unintended ways. The incidents were discovered by OpenAI amid an internal review triggered by the Hugging Face hack. Read more [paywall removed for Redditors]: https://fortune.com/2026/09/25/openai-rogue-agents-images-sam-altman-chatgpt-users-links-encoded-info-hugging-face-hack/ submitted by /u/fortune
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