OpenAI said its AI agents leaked 53 images belonging to ChatGPT users, marking the latest in a growing list of incidents involving Artificial Intelligence acting beyond their intended limits.
Since then, more than 15 incidents involving OpenAI agents have been reported by the company or outside researchers, Reuters reported. The incidents have included spam-like activity on websites and attempts to exploit software weaknesses.
Because they were looking for reliable sources of publicly available information, openAI said its research models accessed some government, university and public-agency websites.
It sent questions to an outside chatbot before the company stopped the training run about 2.5 hours later. OpenAI said its monitoring system detected the activity within 15 minutes, and a human reviewed the alert three minutes later. Because the company uses some anonymised ChatGPT user data to train its models, this came after the viral 1980s AI photo trend on Instagram where users used ChatGPT to transform their pictures into retro photographs resembling vintage family albums, classic studio sessions, or old Bollywood stills OpenAI’s AI agents could access the images.
Earlier, OpenAI said an AI agent being trained in a supposedly internet-free environment found a way to access the public internet and contact another chatbot. The agent used a gap in the DNS filtering of its training system, according to OpenAI. The agent sent at least 20 questions to the outside chatbot, including “What is the capital of France”, Bloomberg reported. OpenAI said it would not restart training of that particular model.
Enterprise data is not used for training, while consumer users can choose not to allow their data to be used for training.
