OpenAI alerts more than 100 groups about rogue AI agent activity

Oct 1 (Reuters) - OpenAI has informed more than 100 organizations about incidents involving unauthorized activity tied ‌to its AI agents, according to a blog ‌post by the ChatGPT maker, as AI labs face mounting scrutiny over ​rogue AI agent activity.

Here are some other details:

• The Sam Altman-led company has been conducting a broad review of the activities of its AI models after the accidental ‌hacking of Hugging Face.

• ⁠OpenAI is searching through roughly 50 petabytes of data as it works to understand ⁠the full scope of its rogue agent activity.

• A string of high-profile breaches globally by rogue AI agents in ​recent months ​has sparked widespread worries within ​the AI industry over ‌its ability to control the more powerful AI models now under development.

• "In some cases, models used internet access in unintended ways or, in retrospect, did not have the ideal restrictions applied. Over the last several months, we ‌have been applying new technical ​and operational measures to avoid similar ​problems, or catch ​them very early, and will continue this work," ‌OpenAI said.

• OpenAI previously said ​the review ​would take months to complete given the scale of the work.

• The Hugging Face incident remains the ​most severe rogue ‌agent activity OpenAI has identified from its AI ​models so far.

(Reporting by Arasu Kannagi Basil in ​Bengaluru; Editing by Tasim Zahid)