OpenAI says its rogue agents posted 53 ChatGPT users’ images online

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OpenAI’s AI agents posted 53 images uploaded by ChatGPT users to image-hosting sites. The company said so on Friday on the page where it tracks its review of rogue agents. The links to the images were not publicly listed.

“This is not an appropriate use of this data,” OpenAI said.

The images came from accounts that let OpenAI train on their data. Before training, OpenAI removes account details. A version of its Privacy Filter then strips out names, contact details and account numbers. It said it cannot link the images back to user accounts. OpenAI leaves out data from business, enterprise and API accounts unless an admin has opted in.

The leaks happened before the safeguards OpenAI added after the Hugging Face breach. It has worked with the hosting providers to remove most of the images and is still removing the rest.

OpenAI would not say whether the images showed...

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