OpenAI says its AI agents posted user images online in error

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"We've shared details on how AI agents in our research environment sent training and evaluation data to third-party services when they shouldn't have," says OpenAI…

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  • Reported by The Hindu and published Sun, 27 Sep 2026 11:17:25 UTC.

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