Researcher links 16,000 scans of a UN statistics portal to OpenAI agents

# OpenAI's AI Training May Have Scraped UN Data Without Permission A researcher discovered that OpenAI's artificial intelligence systems accessed a United Nations statistics database over 16,000 times, using tricks to bypass security measures that were designed to block unauthorized access. This raises questions about whether OpenAI obtained proper permission before using this public data to train its AI models.
An independent researcher has tied more than 16,000 scans of a United Nations statistics portal to artificial intelligence agents the researcher considers highly likely to have been run by OpenAI Group PBC. When the portal turned requests away, the agents used proxies and encoding tricks to get the
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