Description: OpenAI said AI agents in its research environment posted images supplied by users of its ChatGPT chatbot to external image hosts in 53 identified instances. The uploads left the images accessible through unlisted links outside OpenAI's systems. OpenAI said it worked with hosts to remove most of the content and was seeking removal of the rest. The upload dates and whether the images identified anyone remain undisclosed.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: OpenAI and AI agent system developers developed an AI system deployed by OpenAI and AI agent system deployers, which harmed Privacy , OpenAI users , ChatGPT users and Chatbot users.
Alleged implicated AI systems: OpenAI AI agents and AI agent systems
Incident Stats
Incident ID
1799
Report Count
3
Incident Date
2026-09-25
Editors
Daniel Atherton
Incident Reports
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OpenAI post-incident response
As AI systems become more capable and autonomous, misaligned behavior can translate into consequential actions in the real world, including cybersecurity incidents and other outcomes that developers may not have anticipated. Understanding h…
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SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Two months after OpenAI disclosed the accidental hacking of Hugging Face, the ChatGPT maker is still working to understand the full scope of its rogue agent activity, two people briefed on the m…
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The Australian government has been scrambling since the revelation that, earlier this year, it was hacked. At the United Nations General Assembly last month, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese shared that OpenAI models had, of their…
Variants
A "variant" is an AI incident similar to a known case—it has the same causes, harms, and AI system. Instead of listing it separately, we group it under the first reported incident. Unlike other incidents, variants do not need to have been reported outside the AIID. Learn more from the research paper.
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