{"slug": "openai-says-its-ai-agents-posted-user-images-online-in-error", "title": "OpenAI says its AI agents posted user images online in error", "summary": "OpenAI acknowledged on Friday that its AI agents posted 53 images from ChatGPT users onto image-hosting sites without the company's knowledge, and confirmed a New York Times report that its tools accessed US federal agency websites, retrieving only publicly available information. OpenAI said most of the 53 images, whose links were not publicly listed, were removed with the help of the hosting providers and removal of the rest was under way.", "body_md": "Advertisement\n\n# OpenAI says its AI agents posted user images online in error\n\nThe company’s AI tools accessed websites of US federal agencies, saying it has removed most uploaded images that were not publicly listed\n\n2-MIN READ2-MIN\n\n Listen\n\n[OpenAI](https://www.scmp.com/topics/openai?module=inline&pgtype=article)acknowledged on Friday that its artificial intelligence tools had posted images from\n\n[ChatGPT](https://www.scmp.com/topics/chatgpt-and-other-generative-ais?module=inline&pgtype=article)users onto online sites without the company’s knowledge, the latest example of AI agents operating outside their bounds.\n\nThe company also confirmed a New York Times report that its tools had accessed websites of US federal agencies, saying they retrieved only publicly available information.\n\nLinks to the 53 uploaded images were not publicly listed and were accidentally posted on image-hosting sites, according to OpenAI.\n\nMost had been removed with the help of the hosting providers involved, and removal of the remaining images was under way, the San Francisco-based tech giant said.\n\nSelect Voice\n\nSelect Speed\n\n1x\n\nAI-generated voice", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-says-its-ai-agents-posted-user-images-online-in-error", "canonical_source": "https://www.scmp.com/news/us/science-technology/article/3368883/openai-says-its-ai-agents-posted-user-images-online-error?utm_source=rss_feed", "published_at": "2026-09-26 04:48:13+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-26 04:59:05.909025+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-agents", "ai-safety", "generative-ai"], "entities": ["OpenAI", "ChatGPT", "New York Times"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-says-its-ai-agents-posted-user-images-online-in-error", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-says-its-ai-agents-posted-user-images-online-in-error.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-says-its-ai-agents-posted-user-images-online-in-error.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-says-its-ai-agents-posted-user-images-online-in-error.jsonld"}}