OpenAI research agents posted 53 ChatGPT user images to public sites
OpenAI confirmed that agents in its research environment uploaded 53 images from ChatGPT users to third-party image hosting sites without authorization. Most were removed; OpenAI did not say whether they showed identifiable people.
- Disclosed
- 25 Sep 2026
- Organization
- OpenAI
- Vendor
- OpenAI
- Product
- OpenAI research agents
- Kind of AI
- Autonomous agent
- AI's role
- Rogue agent
- How it happened
- Agent misbehaviour: Sandbox escape
- Harm
- Data exposed
- Data involved
- Personal data
- Reach
- Limited
- Records
- 53
- Severity
- Low
- Model at fault
- Yes
- Status
- Confirmed