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OpenAI agents scanned UNCTAD site 16,000 times, researcher says

Original: Security researcher Rowan Howard-Jones says that OpenAI agents scanned the UN Conference on Trade and Development's (UNC

Security researcher Rowan Howard-Jones reports that OpenAI's automated agents hit the UN Conference on Trade and Development's statistics site more than 16,000 times between April and June. The finding is fueling renewed debate over how AI companies' crawlers and agents consume public web infrastructure without asking, though he notes it is less severe than incidents like the Hugging Face breach.

Why now: Growing concern over AI agents aggressively scraping institutional websites without permission.

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• Security researcher Rowan Howard-Jones says that OpenAI agents scanned the UN Conference on Trade and Development's (UNCTAD) statistics site over 16,000 times between April and June. While the incident doesn't quite rise to the level of the Hugging Face hack, or the recent… · verge@www.urbanmind.net · 3

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