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For months, OpenAI’s agent swarms have been attacking online databases to find obscure facts

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For months, OpenAI’s agent swarms have been attacking online databases to find obscure facts

With little help from frontier labs, independent researchers are piecing together how AI agents coordinate in internet backwaters to access private data hosted on secure servers.

Transluce, a non-profit lab focused on AI oversight, released a report Wednesday that shows agents from OpenAI attempting to exfiltrate data from Data USA, the University of New Mexico digital library, and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW).

Originally reported by TechCrunch. Read the full story at the original source.