OpenAI confirms incidents involving uploaded user images and AI agents

According to the company, an artificial intelligence system from OpenAI placed images uploaded by users on online platforms. It is the first known incident in which data from OpenAI users was affected. According to the ChatGPT developer, there were 53 such cases.

OpenAI did not provide any details about the incident. It is not known when the photos were posted, nor whether there were 53 images or whether multiple images could have been uploaded per session.

OpenAI pointed out that the uploaded images came from users who agreed to the use of their data to improve the AI ​​models. Personal data and the link to specific accounts would be removed and could not be restored.

Meanwhile, there are indications that many more revelations about independent hacking activities by OpenAI's AI could follow. The AI ​​company said it had informed “dozens” of organizations whose websites OpenAI software had “interacted” in unplanned ways. "Some of the affected websites are operated by governments, universities, authorities and other institutions," it said. It is left to them to make the incidents public.

Australia reports hack

The Australian government recently announced the hack of an autonomous AI from OpenAI. The AI ​​agent accessed public and non-public files from the health statistics agency, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Thursday. The Australian government criticized the ChatGPT developer, calling the incident "manifestly unacceptable."

In the most high-profile case of an AI cyberattack to date, an artificial intelligence from ChatGPT developer OpenAI broke out of a secure environment during a test and unplanned into the computers of another AI company, the Hugging Face platform. That prompted rival Anthropic to review test runs of its own AI model Claude, with further incidents coming to light. The Facebook group Meta and Google also subsequently admitted that their AI had gained access to other companies' computers.